All agent provocateur synonyms

noun agent provocateur

• agitator — If you describe someone involved in politics as an agitator, you disapprove of them because of the trouble they cause in organizing campaigns and protests.
• firebrand — a piece of burning wood or other material.
• goad — a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
• incendiary — used or adapted for setting property on fire: incendiary bombs.
• instigator — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
• operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
• rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
• radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
• ringleader — a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority, law, etc.: a ringleader of revolutionary activities.
• spark — Muriel (Sarah) (Camberg) 1918–2006, British novelist and writer, born in Scotland.
• spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
• troublemaker — a person who causes difficulties, distress, worry, etc., for others, especially one who does so habitually as a matter of malice.
• non-cooperative — failure or refusal to cooperate.
• provocateur — a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
• provoker — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.