Goading in a sentence as a noun

I imagine kids goading teachers to show them their gun, to take it out, to pose with it, etc.

No amount of goading or convincing will make an ounce of difference.

The Government would prefer the secrets spilled to someone goading over them with it.

There might be one or two attractive use cases beyond goading thieves into going online but those are to my mind very much edge cases.

It does sound exactly like the type of goading comment a government official would make to a journalist off the record.

It would be most beneficial to all of us to politely ask how we can improve each others' lives, rather than goading people into defensive postures.

Probably a drop in the bucket compared to Stephen Colbert goading his watchers to edit silly things into wikipedia.

The fire-walkers have to choose freely to walk on the coals: it's not like they all get in a line and crack whips at each other, goading one another reluctantly across the coals.

In particular, it seems like it'd be pretty easy to entrap some of the gun-show types who talk about "second amendment solutions", goading them into making more specific statements.

All of this controversy aside, do you have any real reference point for what a conversation between a government official and a journalist sounds like, let alone a goading one at that?

My point is it is illegal to enter an order into the market with the intent of goading someone into trading or to manipulate the price unless it is a bona-fide offer to buy or sell.

Either of those, or "inciting", seem like reasonable boundaries when it is goading/facilitating/inciting specific illegal action.

Opposing editors will never be convinced by your arguments, and the best you can hope for is to get them neutralized by goading them into a gross violation of civility, about which you can then complain at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement.

Goading definitions

noun

a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"

See also: goad prod prodding urging spur spurring