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UK
/ˈædʒɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈædʒəˌteɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈædʒəˌteɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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causing or tending to cause anger or resentment
a provoking delay at the airport
How To Use agitating In A Sentence
- Girl Guides are agitating and demonstrating with their parents' blessing, although it's debatable what use their stick-whittling skills will be once they're kittled into a four-hour stand-off by police. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- They slung chapattis and dished out dhal with hilarious inaccuracy, but they were volunteers, and already the next sitting was agitating at the door.
- When all but the oxalic acid have been added, pour in the silver solution and any undissolved crystals that may be remaining; then add the oxalic acid and without shaking or agitating the bottle, put away in a dark place for 24 hours.
- I'm not saying that Bill and Hill or their surrogates are actively "agitating" in this direction (so Clinton folks, don't get your undies in a bunch); but there seems to be a growing statistical basis for the winking suggestion (should anyone wish to make it) that Obama is "little more" than Jesse Jackson on steroids. Rasmussen: Obama Ahead By 14 In Racially-Polarized Mississippi Primary
- But it only matters if the people doing the agitating are his constituents. THE NEWS BLOG
- Yes, for a long time I have been agitating for the licensing of ‘psychics’ and other such mountebanks.
- They are agitating to assert autonomy.
- In the Alinsky model, organizing is code for agitating, for revolution. Victorville Daily Press :
- First , they cling to their old factional mentality and are politically subversive agitating against the Party.
- At what point will the torture-loving right begin agitating for those methods to be applied to domestic law enforcement. Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate