inciter
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8.4
- noun
- /ɪnˈsaɪtər/
- NSFW
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incitador
- The inciter urged the crowd to protest against the unjust laws.
Examples
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The latter are placed in the category of enemies of public order, of criminals and inciters to violence, and the neutral community is invariably arrayed against them.
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According to the previously established guidelines, this policy included a massive military presence and the arrest of the inciters.
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However, in the US at least, this inciter to violence is legally scot-free.
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That certainly doesn't let the inciters off the hook.
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History rightly blames the king, and it will also rightly blame the hate-inciters of today.
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It requires an intention to cause harm on the part of the inciter to the third party, so it is quite a high threshold and therefore not necessarily objectionable.
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In a tape recording of a portion of Netanyahu's address obtained by The Jerusalem Post last night, the deputy foreign minister clearly states that 'five, 50, or 500 inciters?
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This bullet, not lethal at a range of over 70 m, gave IDF soldiers a tactical advantage over stone throwers and demonstration inciters.
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So there is no evidence of a plot by GOP governors to steal the election in states with sketchy electronic voting (hello, Cole, the inciter and victim of unreasoning fear as soon as the clock strikes twelve).
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Table 2 shows that the most frequent response over time (approximately 1/3 of the Israelis) was option 2, which advocates a very cautious use of force in a very limited manner and only against terrorists, inciters to violence, and the leaders of the civilian disturbances.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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4.1
A person who causes problems for other people on purpose
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8.8
A person who on purpose causes trouble or makes others do wrong
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6.8
A person who starts trouble or urges others to act
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7.9
A person who tries to make others protest or cause trouble
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9.9
A person who secretly encourages others to break the law to make them look guilty
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7.5
A person who starts trouble on purpose to make others react
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9.8
A person who helps someone else commit a crime
A person who on purpose makes others start trouble or fight
A person who causes problems by starting arguments or fights
Antonyms
How Inciting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inciter comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and citare 'to move or urge'. So an inciter is someone who moves people into action, like excite, but often pushing them toward trouble.