easily provoked
Example Sentences
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"We are not a country that is easily provoked," Fidan said.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
In her neighborhood, she had been known as a fighter, easily provoked.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 24, 2018
He is inexperienced, uninformed, easily provoked and supremely confident in his own judgment.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2017
They’re Irish Catholic, working-class New Englanders, loyal but fractious, easily provoked to violence—all facts established not by plodding expository dialogue but in the characters’ very way of speaking, their posture, the furnishings in their kitchens.
From Slate • Nov. 18, 2016
Vomiting may not occur spontaneously, but it is easily provoked by repletion of the stomach with any description of ingesta or by harsh or disgusting medicines.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
