as in provocative
tending to excite political disorder or insurrection
the restless crowd was stirred up by the inflammatory rhetoric
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Recent Examples of inflammatory
Such comments are deliberately inflammatory.
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Molly Absolon, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
Immune cells also invaded the testes, and inflammatory genes were switched on, indicating that the infection triggered an immune response in an organ that’s usually protected from such activity.
—New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
Mickelson has also taken aim at those who have made inflammatory comments in the aftermath of Kirk's death.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Many meat substitutes are ultra-processed, filled with sodium, inflammatory oils, and synthetic additives like methylcellulose and soy protein isolate.
—Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
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Molly Absolon, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
Immune cells also invaded the testes, and inflammatory genes were switched on, indicating that the infection triggered an immune response in an organ that’s usually protected from such activity.
—New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
Mickelson has also taken aim at those who have made inflammatory comments in the aftermath of Kirk's death.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Many meat substitutes are ultra-processed, filled with sodium, inflammatory oils, and synthetic additives like methylcellulose and soy protein isolate.
—Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inflammatory
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inflammatory
Adjective
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In some instances, demonstrators have displayed provocative props such as a guillotine to symbolize opposition to federal actions.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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The Valiant is an incredibly provocative car.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That was the extent of her involvement in the special counsel’s investigation, which led to more than 1,500 people being charged and most convicted of trespassing, vandalism, assault or seditious conspiracy.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Rhodes had been convicted of seditious conspiracy after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol but his sentence was commuted by Trump earlier this year.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Confidential informants had apparently accused me of incendiary comments.—
Joe Garcia,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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The film looks like a million bucks, has a high pedigree of talent, and mistakes constant poking for conversation, endless buzzwords for a buffet of food for thought, incendiary hypotheticals for insight.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Inflammatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inflammatory. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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