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Provocateur

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Noun

1. agent provocateur, provocateur

a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Provocateur

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noun
a person who deliberately behaves controversially in order to provoke argument or other strong reactions

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Provocateur

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noun
1.  short for
agent provocateur
2. 
a writer, artist, political activist, etc. whose works, ideas, or activities are regarded as a threat to accepted values or practices

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Provocateur

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n.
An agent provocateur.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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