Forced and Nonviolent

Forced

Forced adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.

Nonviolent is an antonym for forced.

Nonviolent

Nonviolent adjective - Not involving violence or force.
Usage example: nonviolent protests

Forced is an antonym for nonviolent.

Both words in one sentence

  • Useful Notes / John F. Kennedy To that end, they forced the issue by staging nonviolent protests and similar actions to provoke white racist authorities and mobs to go berserk against them.
  • Innocent Aliens The Mercorans, who settled on Earth in the Cretaceous period, were also nonviolent, to the point that they committed ritual mutilation in mourning when some of them were killed the only time they were forced to fight against another sentient being.
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