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incendiary

adjective as in causing trouble, damage

noun as in person who causes fire, trouble

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Example Sentences

Hoyer said the language Greene has used is far more incendiary than what King had said over the years.

That would make sense as a candidate for Congress, but it seems a puzzling thing for someone in private life to delegate people not just to manage your accounts but also to post such incendiary things.

Of the various flags paraded around the seat of the US legislative branch, the most incendiary was a battle pennant from the Confederate army.

From Quartz

Other teams reproduced only the spike protein to analyze for portions that are especially incendiary towards our immune system, which could spark a larger immune response.

It provided the kindling for an incendiary — and at times strikingly effective — reckoning with American racism.

From Vox

The Wolf of Wall Street is a dangerous, incendiary work of art.

And social media in general has been blamed for making an incendiary situation in the Middle East even more tense.

Even more incendiary, Barry asserts the FBI was actually trying to kill him.

Does Israel offer up any facts to fortify his incendiary charge?

Anwar looks and sounds like an accountant as he addresses a question no more incendiary than monetary debt, with charts included.

The Roman capitol fired during the night by an incendiary and consumed.

Sentiments were offered and speeches made, which in other days would have been called incendiary.

The incendiary wagons were filled with the firebrands stamped 1912.

On the night of May 24 the city became a scene of incendiary rage.

The range was obtained by the aviators, and then incendiary bombs were fired.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incendiary, such as: inflammatory, provocative, subversive, treacherous, dangerous, and demagogic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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