easily provoked
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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
He describes the men as warlike, passionate, disputatious, easily provoked, but generous and unsuspicious, and easily vanquished by stratagem.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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