inciting
adj.adj. describing something that encourages or starts a specific action, especially something negative like a fight or a protest.
adj. serving to provoke, stir up, or urge on a specific course of action. Often used as a participial adjective to describe speech or events that trigger conflict or unrest.
The speaker used inciting language to start a protest.
The court examined whether the inciting speech directly led to the violence that followed the rally.
Legal scholars often debate the fine line between protected free expression and inciting rhetoric that poses an immediate threat to public safety and order.
Often used as a participial adjective before a noun like 'incident', 'speech', or 'event'.
He was inciting of the crowd.He was inciting the crowd.When used as a verb form, it is transitive and takes a direct object without a preposition.