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  • adjective That tends to produce conflagration; inflammatory

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Examples

  • When combined with a simple incendiary - even a simple match - many conflagratory chuckles can be achieved;

    A Letter to this Morning's Protester Dungeekin 2009

  • When combined with a simple incendiary - even a simple match - many conflagratory chuckles can be achieved;

    Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • The flame screamed, a high-pitched conflagratory shriek, as it died.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • And Bon has trouble doing that sometimes, which is why Clay lived rent-free in her Dort room for 4 months while she slept in Tim's bed every night because she didn't want to tell him to leave, and why she continued to be friends with Leslie after Leslie was such a jerk to her and wrote her all these nasty emails and took sadistic delight in fanning the flames of her already conflagratory white guilt.

    kinaesthesia Diary Entry kinaesthesia 2001

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