The word "provocateur" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a person who provokes or incites others, often in a political or social context. Example: "The artist was seen as a provocateur, challenging societal norms through her provocative installations." Alternatives include "instigator" or "agitator."
And, using parliamentary privilege, the MP Caroline Lucas alleged that he planted an incendiary device in a branch of Debenhams while acting as an agent provocateur.
Sidebottom was a genuine British eccentric, part-punk provocateur, part-end-of-the-pier parody.
A witness said the man in the black uniform was a provocateur who had tried to spur the reluctant troops to attack civilians, but other video from Slaviansk showed Ukrainian forces dressed in similar black uniforms in a standoff with unarmed locals.
After Theo van Gogh, a film-maker and anti-Muslim provocateur, was murdered in 2004, advocating freedom of speech increasingly came to mean openly attacking Islam.Among the policies of Mr Wilders's Party for Freedom (PVV) is to ban the Koran.
Deeley, meanwhile, is both spectator and provocateur, stoking the evening with his own memories.
Muhammad showing his hairy naked bum…Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom.He didn't look like a provocateur.
A week before the crackdown, Mr Castro denounced James Cason, America's top diplomat in Cuba, as a "provocateur".
To the delight of some Catholics and the dismay of others, he has defended the right of Christians to proselytise among Muslims, and denounced liberal churchmen who are "soft" on Islam.Muslims in Italy and elsewhere have called Mr Allam a provocateur and chided Pope Benedict for abetting him.
A provocateur who called on all Lezgin people to rally round would have an easy time of it.Secondly, Georgians have bitter memories of the close relations between the separatists of Abkhazia and their fellow Muslims on the other side of the mountains.
And he has demanded a ban on immigration from Muslim countries.Mr Wilders might seem just a provocateur.
A flamboyantly gay ex-professor of social sciences fond of his three-piece suits, his Daimler, and his King Charles spaniels, Mr Fortuyn was a natural provocateur.
