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  • noun One who, or that which, antagonizes.

Etymologies

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antagonize +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The frightening aspect of all this is just how much the Media has become a political antagonizer and has given itself the power to shape people's thoughts and attitudes towards the cadidates and the political process itself.

    Obama Campaign Mapping Out Aggressive Counter-Attack Against Swift-Boating 2009

  • A typical entry starts with a brief biographical line, like “Michael Moore (born April 23, 1954 in Flint, Michigan) is a filmmaker, a political antagonizer, an author, and a dick.”

    Daily Digest: The Blimp is Up Levy, Joshua 2007

  • Critics say don't give a Holocaust-denying Israeli antagonizer the chance to spew hate to the American audience, but Iran's president is going to a top university.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2007 2007

  • The swordswoman was to be the antagonizer, the sorceress the sympathizer.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • The swordswoman was to be the antagonizer, the sorceress the sympathizer.

    The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

  • My antagonizer drew back his fist and smashed me across the left side of my jaw.

    Trimble, Jack R. 1977

  • Or is the whole thing a metaphor, with the executioner standing in for a traumatic event or antagonizer?

    Kotaku Eric Wittmershaus 2010

  • Adam Burish, the Blackhawks 'resident chief antagonizer, spent a good chunk of his time in the locker room Monday morning extolling the Flyers' Ian Laperriere and sounding like a one-man admiration society for the veteran winger.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • He and Davis make for a sweet couple, despite their anarchic activities, and he plays a strong straight man / antagonizer to Quaid's wild and woolly Loomis.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

  • He and Davis make for a sweet couple, despite their anarchic activities, and he plays a strong straight man / antagonizer to Quaid's wild and woolly Loomis.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

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