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Meaning of agente provocatrice | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˌaʒɒ̃(t)pɹəvɒkəˈtɹiːs/

Definitions

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

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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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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