Did you mayhaps mean one of these? provocation, provocative
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An agent provocateur.
Wiktionary
- n. One who engages in provocative behavior.
- n. An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French provocateur. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Housh, an Internet activist and provocateur, is not an easy guy to characterize.”
“Assuming for the sake of the argument that the website (which liked the sign) did not falsify the date of the post, that the picture was not photoshopped, and that the demonstrator was not a leftie agent provocateur, is that really enough to justify tens of thousands of smirking [expletive deleteds] like Dilan Esper calling all tea partiers ‘teabaggers’ ever after and insisting that they asked for it and that they took the name themselves?”
“Q: You're often called a provocateur as a director; are you upset if people don't walk out of your films?”
Brad Balfour: Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist
“To this day I do not know whether the man was a lunatic, an imposter seeking money, or an agent provocateur, that is, one who imagined that he might through me inveigle M. Zola into an illegal act which would lead to prosecution and imprisonment.”
“Knepper, an openly gay political science major and a two-year columnist with the Eagle, is known as a provocateur, according to CASJC member Drew Franklin.”
“The so called provocateur that wrote the story and fabricated the story needs to be sued until he can't write ever again.”
“On the other hand, if your goal is act as an fool provocateur, which is what many, if not most of us, believe, then you won't.”
“Reasons to be Pretty is currently running at the Lyceum Theater, is known as a provocateur, but his show took things to the next level during the play's April 5 matinee.”
“Dr. John Sullivan is well known as a provocateur, a characteristic which has both guided and distinguished our work throughout the years.”
“* But I'm more inclined to agree with Chris Cillizza, who says she's just playing her familiar role of "provocateur," though "demagogue" might be a better word for it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘provocateur’.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 212 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 109 more...
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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English with Tongue
French words and phrases used by English speakers.
objet d'art, nom de plume, petite, bon voyage, avant-garde, faux pas, faux, touché, répondez, s'il vo..., rouge, papier mâché, joie de vivre and 85 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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bobfet1's Words
anathema, schadenfreude, sturm und drang, dadaism, serendipitous, obfuscate, kibosh, salacious, misogyny, kismet, madrasah, circumlocute and 129 more...
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Red Seas Under Red Skies
Words and phrase from Scott Lynch's book, Red Seas Under Red Skies.
legate, pugnacity, weevil, steady as a dry-d..., chit, sans, apprise, forfend, ken, expatriate, enclave, scrubs and 220 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Anger Mismanagement
churlish, vendetta, retaliatory, bellicose, excoriate, enfant terrible, imperious, vitriolic, upbraid, umbrageous, lambaste, inveigh and 67 more...
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Petersburg
Words I disovered in Andrei Bely's "Petersburg."
apropos, demimonde, hussar, nuptial, triality, piquant, batiste, peregrination, appurtenance, tabouret, haft, censer and 11 more...
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kmenier's list
Onomotopoeia
velvet, egregious, degenerate, acrimonious, clank, covalent, snarky, magneto, banyan, palimpsest, coeval, uproarious and 20 more...
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clarissadalloway's list
monocle, porphyry, wayfarer, jodhpurs, truant, acumen, savvy, carte blanche, aplomb, ignominy, fettered, polemicist and 36 more...
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Erudite Vocab
coruscate, abscond, deracinate, dragoon, encumber, excoriate, exsanguinate, pestilence, extirpate, gambol, immolate, impugn and 85 more...
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hanabiheidi's Words
conspicuous, errata, vaguely, indeed, spork, cleave, ah, applicable, subtlety, alleged, rapscallion, sinecure and 64 more...
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ending -aire or -eur
rapporteur, concessionaire, arbitrageur, auteur, raconteur, flaneur, plongeur, saboteur, provocateur
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Words
incontrovertible, provocateur, splenetic, lambaste, inauspicious, abnegate, defenestrated, zemblanity, curb feelers
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