Used in a Sentence

incited

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for incited.

Editorial note

No ai characters were killed in these play sessions and very few were incited to yell at me...

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To call into action.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of incited gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive) To call into action.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for incited.

verb

(transitive) To call into action.

Example sentences

1

No ai characters were killed in these play sessions and very few were incited to yell at me...

2

The same mob that is going after his explicit racism here, knows that it can't handle being incited to anger.

3

It was incited by a Chinese truck driver injuring an Indian laborer in the relatively impoverished Indian district of the city.

4

For example, many pogroms against Jews were incited by some incident[1][2] (usually fabricated, sometimes partly true, sometimes blown out of proportion).

5

This person never said the main thing that seems to have incited your tantrum.

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Say what you will for solving these issues, but the Internet has incited just communal outrage in it's short time in our lives.

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Then Github should have held off on that legalese post that incited anger.

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What about this one incited you to compose this (well-worded) comment about it?

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He committed crimes, over and over, and incited others to do the same.

10

Your comment was useful, so not totally in vein:-) Just incited me to have a little look at powershell (read through [0], useful intro).

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It has incited military coups in South America for the last century.

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Then they incited fear and loathing through terrorist attacks.

Quote examples

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Another very good example was the actions of the FLN in French-run Algeria starting in the 1950s, where they actually more or less incited that "war of all against all", and did so from an organization that was not very centralized at all.

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Is anyone allowed to disagree with you about whether or not distributed punishment incited by careless journalists and carried out by mobs of bored and uninformed strangers is the best way to "drag our culture out of millennia of patriarchy, race-based dominance, and other primitive idiocy"?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use incited in a sentence?

No ai characters were killed in these play sessions and very few were incited to yell at me...

What does incited mean?

(transitive) To call into action.

What part of speech is incited?

incited is commonly used as verb.