provocateur
Example Sentences
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Reckzeh had been set up as a spy and agent provocateur by the Gestapo: Thadden had been fooled by his elaborately constructed cover story.
A YouTube provocateur, Kaiser has talked about a much more radical attack on government, akin to President Javier Milei’s in neighboring Argentina, and a bigger role for the armed forces.
Fuentes famously spent years harassing Kirk and his Turning Point staff at similar college campus events before Kirk banned the provocateur.
From Salon
So do Internet provocateurs, represented here by Ann Coulter, pretty much playing herself and proving that it isn’t an act.
From Salon
Avtandil Imnadze, 85, who was a political prisoner in the Soviet Union, said "the attempt to storm the presidential palace was the work of provocateurs."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
