Synonyms for nonviolent
non·vi·o·lent

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1. nonviolentadjective

   abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence

   Synonyms:
   unbloody

   Antonyms:
   furious, lurid, knockdown-dragout, fierce, ferocious, savage, lashing, tough, raging, violent, ruffianly, bloody, slam-bang, knock-down-and-drag-out, rampageous, convulsive, hot

2. nonviolent, unbloodyadjective

   achieved without bloodshed

   "an unbloody transfer of power"

   Synonyms:
   unbloody

   Antonyms:
   ferocious, ruffianly, convulsive, tough, lurid, rampageous, hot, fierce, raging, slam-bang, violent, furious, lashing, savage, bloody, knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out

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1. List of paraphrases for "nonviolent":

   non-violent, non-violence

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1. Dean Smith:

   It's going to stop a lot of people getting arrested for nonviolent crimes.

2. Kardashian West:

   If you think about a decision that you’ve made in your life and you get life without the possibility of parole for your first-time nonviolent offense, there’s just something so wrong with that.

3. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart:

   These folks are nonviolent, not dangerous. They are in here because of inertia built into a large system.

4. Cesar Chavez, letter:

   Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

5. President Barack Obama:

   The Americans who crossed this bridge, they were not physically imposing, but they gave courage to millions. They held no elected office, but they led a nation, what they did here will reverberate through the ages ... because they proved that nonviolent change is possible.