incendiary

IPA: ɪnsˈɛndiɛri

noun

  • Something capable of causing fire, particularly a weapon.
  • One who maliciously sets fires.
  • (figurative) One who excites or inflames factions into quarrels.

adjective

  • Capable of, or used for, or actually causing fire.
  • (technical) Of a damaging fire, intentionally caused rather than accidental.
  • (figurative) Intentionally stirring up strife, riot, rebellion.
  • (figurative) Inflammatory, emotionally charged.
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Examples of "incendiary" in Sentences

  • When certain incendiary stories break in the news, I have found that it is almost always better to step back, let a little of the dust settle, and then weigh in.
  • Beck cannot claim that he was the voice of reason for these extremist shitheads, long after he engaged in incendiary rhetoric which incited them in the first place.
  • August 19th, 2009 5: 51 pm ET more party of no idiocy. when will they try to work at providing a solution? currently, all they are good at is speaking in incendiary terms and causing problems.
  • In Johnson, the Supreme Court invalidated a statute that prohibited flag burning, but it also endowed Americans, like Reverend Jones, with the right to engage in incendiary conduct like burning the Quran.
  • Sources call Apple vs. Google battle "incendiary" - The competition between Apple and Google has reached "incendiary" levels that aren't likely to cool down anytime soon, a detailed story from within the two companies has shown.
  • Since severing his ties with the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago - where the now-retired Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. delivered sermons that, by the president's own admission, were racially "incendiary" - Obama has been in search of a new church.
  • Mr. Romney is running a campaign strategy indeed targeted at the broad fiscal conservative coalition that emerged in 2010: Hold the worried independents and centrist Democrats by avoiding what in his Dec. 24 Wall Street Journal Weekend Interview he called "incendiary things."

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