uninstigated

English

Etymology

un- +‎ instigated

Adjective

uninstigated (not comparable)

1. Not instigated.
   • 2007 January 10, “This Time, a True Strategy for Iraq? (8 Letters)”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     After four years of pointless, fruitless, uninstigated combat, if President Bush indeed escalates the “sacrifice” of other parents’ beloved children — against all reason, against the will of the electorate and without any personal sacrifice to call his own — it would not be vanity.