provocateur

How To Use provocateur In A Sentence

• Arguing that FDR provoked the attack was Gore Vidal, novelist, provocateur, T. V. icon, and one of the greatest English-language essayists alive.
• Un agent provocateur est une personne agissant secrètement pour le compte d'un groupe mais apparaissant comme le membre d'un autre pour perturber son activité incitant délibérément, par ses propos et son comportement, à commettre des actes sanctionnés par la loi ou par l'opinion publique Wikipedia. Agent provocateur, provoquer, provocant/e
• Doonan sees these provocateurs not as a bunch of kooky broads but as important representatives of the evolution of women's culture.
• The novelist is unapologetic, and still keen to play the part of provocateur.
• Judging by his students – who include Niall Ferguson, Andrew Roberts, Richard Overy and Orlando Figes – Stone must have been an inspiring and undogmatic teacher, a provocateur in the classroom but a supportive mentor outside. The Atlantic and Its Enemies by Norman Stone
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• Later we found out a lot of the brick throwers were paid government informants, what they called agents provocateurs. Chicago Reader
• Ironically, this is the exact kind of antiestablishment attitude that's turned the provocateur into one of China's most powerful personal brands.
• Thankfully, studentsresponded to this editorial, disputing its characterization of the Women's Center as histrionic and taking issue with the weasel words that seem to absolve the DKE brothers of culpability ( 'boisterous''provocateurs'). Leah Anthony Libresco: Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism
• Knock back your entire shot in one gulp, immediately inverting your glass over the table to allow the microscopic last drop to fall out, proving you're not a wuss or a reactionary revanchist Trotskyite provocateur.