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provocateur

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11 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aceooprrtuvStarts with PEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts

Word origin

Borrowed from French provocateur. Doublet of provocator.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: provoker (sometimes synonymous), agitator
  • Gerard Mortier, an iconoclastic impresario and one of the opera world’s premier provocateurs, will become general manager and artistic director of the New York City Opera in 2009.
  • Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.

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