Incendiary

Word INCENDIARY
Character 10
Hyphenation in cen di a ry
Pronunciations /ɪnˈsɛn.djəɹ.i/

Definitions and meanings of "Incendiary"

What do we mean by incendiary?

Causing or designed to cause fires. adjective

Of or containing chemicals that produce intensely hot fire when exploded. adjective

Intentionally started or set. adjective

Tending to arouse strong emotion or conflict; inflammatory. adjective

Causing a strong burning sensation in the mouth; very hot. adjective

An incendiary bomb, bullet, or device. noun

A person who intentionally starts a fire with the purpose of causing damage or injury. noun

One who creates or stirs up conflict; an agitator. noun

Causing or adapted to cause combustion; used in starting a fire or conflagration; igniting; inflammatory: as, incendiary materials; an incendiary match or bomb. Specifically

Pertaining or relating to or consisting in malicious or criminal setting on fire or burning: as, an incendiary mania; the incendiary torch; an incendiary fire.

Tending to excite or inflame passion, sedition, or violence.

A person who maliciously sets fire to a house, shop, barn, or other inflammable property; one who is guilty of arson. noun

One who or that which excites or inflames; a person who excites antagonism and promotes factious quarrels; a violent agitator. noun

Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property adjective

Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious. adjective

A device designed to set a structure on fire; a firebomb. adjective

A bombshell. See Carcass, 4. adjective

Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property. noun

A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. noun

Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon.

One who maliciously sets fires.

One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels.

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The word "incendiary" in example sentences

In Johnson, the Supreme Court invalidated a statute that prohibited flag burning, but it also endowed Americans, like Reverend Jones, with the right to engage in incendiary conduct like burning the Quran. ❋ Jorge A. Rey (2010)

Mr. Romney is running a campaign strategy indeed targeted at the broad fiscal conservative coalition that emerged in 2010: Hold the worried independents and centrist Democrats by avoiding what in his Dec. 24 Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview he called "incendiary things." ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

August 19th, 2009 5: 51 pm ET more party of no idiocy. when will they try to work at providing a solution? currently, all they are good at is speaking in incendiary terms and causing problems. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beck cannot claim that he was the voice of reason for these extremist shitheads, long after he engaged in incendiary rhetoric which incited them in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When certain incendiary stories break in the news, I have found that it is almost always better to step back, let a little of the dust settle, and then weigh in. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sources call Apple vs. Google battle "incendiary" - The competition between Apple and Google has reached "incendiary" levels that aren't likely to cool down anytime soon, a detailed story from within the two companies has shown. ❋ Zoe Slocum (2010)

Since severing his ties with the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago - where the now-retired Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. delivered sermons that, by the president's own admission, were racially "incendiary" - Obama has been in search of a new church. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She’d never challenged him face-to-face, yet when Father went “chasing after one of his dragons,” as we called his incendiary campaigns, we instinctively gathered behind her. ❋ Diane Lee Wilson (2006)

Romney raised Gingrich's remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, describing as "incendiary" Gingrich's claim that Palestinians were an "invented people". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gray calls incendiary package sender "cowardly, dastardly" D.C. ❋ Mike DeBonis (2011)

The filler for both is a combination of explosive and incendiary, which is more effective than explosive alone, but hardly safe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not so – it seems that war pigs, also known as incendiary pigs, may have been used as a counter to war elephants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Incendiary -- we rule -- we rule fire accidental, undetermined or incendiary, which is also -- you know, it ` s an arson. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Until the development and use of the atomic bomb, the incendiary was the weapon that caused the greatest damage to property and life in German and Japanese cities; USSBS, Physical Damage Report (ETO) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947), 23. ❋ Donald L. Miller (2006)

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