provocateur
Example Sentences
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In the early days of Monday Night Football, Howard Cosell, the original sports media provocateur, often griped about former NFL players leaving the field and walking into the booth.
From Los Angeles Times
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 “provocateur” is a person who tries to stir up trouble.
From Literature
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
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