Provokement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Droll
Queer and fitted to provoke laughter ludicrous from oddity amusing and strange
Displease
to vex often followed by with or at It usually expresses less than to anger vex irritate or provoke
Defiance
The act of defying putting in opposition or provoking to combat a challenge a provocation a summons to combat
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counterblast
a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response as her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband
Contentious
Fond of contention given to angry debate provoking dispute or contention quarrelsome
Concupiscible
Exciting to or liable to be affected by concupiscence provoking lustful desires
libel
the truth of the statements as a defense. Criminal libel may have additional elements, as in tending to provoke a breach of peace or in blackening the memory of someone who is dead, and may not have
fighting words
fighting words : words which by their very utterance are likely to inflict harm on or provoke a breach of the peace by the average person to whom they are directed NOTE: Fighting words are
cool
: become calm sometimes used with off or down [the time elapsing…is such that a reasonable man thus provoked would have ed "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."]
Mala in se
human laws or not, as distinguished from mala prohibita. Of this class are murder, robbery, perjury, planning or provoking riot, injury to persons, or destruction of property, etc. See CRIME, and 1 Steph. Com.; 1 Broom and
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