agente provocatrice

Definitions

A female agent provocateur; a woman who incites someone to do something, especially something incriminating.

Equivalents

Examples

““It's a star part I am offering you. The beautiful, slinky agente provocatrice.””

“Rigault set⟳ an agente provocatrice to pick⟳ up the judge⟳ in a café; then, once the bait had been taken, Rigault arraigned the judge⟳ with seducing his sister […].”

“Manya Shohat was charged with having been an agente provocatrice who betrayed Jews to the czarist secret police.”

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