Provocateur

Housh, an Internet activist and provocateur, is not an easy guy to characterize. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Assuming for the sake of the argument that the website (which liked the sign) did not falsify the date of the post, that the picture was not photoshopped, and that the demonstrator was not a leftie agent provocateur, is that really enough to justify tens of thousands of smirking [expletive deleteds] like Dilan Esper calling all tea partiers ‘teabaggers’ ever after and insisting that they asked for it and that they took the name themselves? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Q: You're often called a provocateur as a director; are you upset if people don't walk out of your films? ❋ Unknown (2009)

To this day I do not know whether the man was a lunatic, an imposter seeking money, or an agent provocateur, that is, one who imagined that he might through me inveigle M. Zola into an illegal act which would lead to prosecution and imprisonment. ❋ Vizetelly, Ernest A (1899)

Knepper, an openly gay political science major and a two-year columnist with the Eagle, is known as a provocateur, according to CASJC member Drew Franklin. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The so called provocateur that wrote the story and fabricated the story needs to be sued until he can't write ever again. ❋ Scott Harshbarger (2010)

Reasons to be Pretty is currently running at the Lyceum Theater, is known as a provocateur, but his show took things to the next level during the play's April 5 matinee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dr. John Sullivan is well known as a provocateur, a characteristic which has both guided and distinguished our work throughout the years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the other hand, if your goal is act as an fool provocateur, which is what many, if not most of us, believe, then you won't. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* But I'm more inclined to agree with Chris Cillizza, who says she's just playing her familiar role of "provocateur," though "demagogue" might be a better word for it. ❋ Greg Sargent (2011)

Not long after he conducted the Khrushchev interview in 1957, Mr. Schorr was denounced in Pravda as a "provocateur" and not allowed back into the country. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As members of the youth wing of his National Front party feasted on barbecue and apple pie, they were thrilled to see the grand old man hold forth, still the "provocateur" taunting the establishment, the "toreador" who hides the sword in his cape and lets the press run at him like a bull. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After intermission, the audience was ushered into one of three rooms and seated at tables with a "provocateur" who prompted discussion over tea and chocolate cake made from Warner's recipe, and periodic dancing by Dance Exchange members and students. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By and large, however, Culler interprets Fish as a bit of a ham, a "provocateur" 87, whose pedagogy is exemplary for...nobody, really. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Brokaw's misuse of the French provocateur, meaning "a secret agent who incites suspected persons [protesters] to commit illegal acts" (OED), had to have been intentional. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Far from being a mere "character witness" for Abbie the "provocateur," Judy Collins had a seminal relationship to the Yippie Festival of Life. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jackson called Nash the Suns '"provocateur" in their offense and said the point guard was an equal threat as both a scorer and a distributor, so the Lakers defense would have to ❋ Unknown (2010)

The French word, "provocateur" is used, usually in the context of "agent provocateur," because it has a different connotation from the English equivalent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pouring [gasoline] on the flames of [civil disobedience] is the [forte] of the Provocateur in Chief. ❋ Dr Bunnygirl (2020)

[Strat] sure is a social provocateur, [he wont] shut up about these free [wine] parties, what a douche. ❋ Strat Parrott (2009)

She looked [tempting] as hell dressed up in [Agent Provocateur's] [lingerie]. ❋ Necrotism (2006)

[Milo Yiannopoulos] is an Agent provocateur; he doesn't seem to really have an objective opinion, only says things to piss people off and thereby increase his [notoriety]. While some of the things he says do seem quite [rational] and logical, he merely repeats other people's controversial ideas. ❋ JypsiPixie (2017)

Bob: Did you hear [Donald Trump Jr]. tell the crowd that "This isn't their [Republican Party] any more; it is Donald Trump's Republican Party" ? Amy: Just [ignore that] dickhead-provocateur. We'll be done with him soon enough. ❋ Frustrated_Driver (2021)

“That Brian [Edwards] used to be amazing. But since he’s taken to [elderly] [pompous] trolling, he describes himself as an Agent Provocateur” ❋ El_d (2017)