Crossword clues for provocateur
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1915 (Emma Goldman), shortened form of agent provocateur "person hired to make trouble" (1845), from French provocateur, from Latin provocator "challenger," from provocare "to call out" (see provoke).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. One who engages in provocative behavior. Etymology 2
a. provocative n. provoker; one who provokes
WordNet
n. a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts [syn: agent provocateur]
Wikipedia
Provocateur (also released on video as Agent Provocateur) is a 1998 film directed by Jim Donovan, written by Roger Kumble, and starring Lillo Brancato Jr. and Jane March. The original score was written by Mark Nakamura and Mark Shannon.
March plays Sook Hee, a honhyol North Korean agent who ingratiates herself into the household of Colonel Greg Finn (Stephen Mendel), stationed in South Korea, to access military secrets. While working as Finn's servant, Sook becomes acquainted with his son Chris (Brancato), and they fall in love.
Usage examples of "provocateur".
Rigby and Peller for the establishment, with Agent Provocateur of Soho and Boisvert of Neal Street for the more adventurous adventuress.
John Thomas Steadman -- a craftsman, idealist, sculptor and, like so many others before him, humble plagiarist -- and his new wife, Gloria, the daughter of a Giggleswick mayor and Plombier Provocateur, Gordon Twing, and his wife, Doreen.
It was Malwa provocateurs who stirred up the Keralan mob against the refugees from Andhra!
Rice Crispies, doing his job in a very decent fashion, was decidedly interested in the point of agent provocateur.
However, the fault lies not with him but with certain agents provocateurs in Prince Awari's camp.
Cadres of certain communalist groupings had been at work, inciting the miners to violence, and as a result of the activities of these agents provocateurs a mob was forming, carrying banners demanding: NO ISLAMIC PADYATRA!
When I told Kathy she wouldn't even have to go into the witness box if we won our agent provocateur argument, Dave said, 'I'm not sure I agree with that.
Treadstone had a willing agent provocateur to go after the Jackal.
It may be that this warning is not needed, for you have already been the victim of an agent provocateur and seen the chicanery of a true master of the art of deception.
But for some time now he'd searched for a way to play the role of agent provocateur, and finally the opportunity had fallen right into his hands.
If you are an agent provocateur, Comrade, you know that I've been told this.
In cases too numerous to mention, tyrants and aspiring despots have gone even further, engaging agents provocateurs to carry out assassinations, foment riots and rebellion, precipitate financial panics, attempt palace coups, feign foreign invasion, initiate acts of terrorism, and perform other infamous acts —.
Maddened as they were by bloodlust and the shouted slogans of the agents provocateurs, there wasn't a man or woman there crazy enough to take on the Deathstalker.
I mean, you almost never get an Arab walk-in unless they're trying to fuck someone else, or if there's a reward to be had, or if they were agents provocateurs, to use a French and CIA term.
De Cherbourg was working with one of His Majesty's personal agents trying to trace down the ring of Polish agents provocateurs operating in Cherbourg.