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agitate
(redirected from agitative)

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agitate against someone or something
to stir up active dissatisfaction about someone or something. The students were agitating against the closing of the old cafeteria.
See also: against

agitate for something

to stir up active support for something. The committee agitated for a change, but nothing was done.


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Some big media channels and great newspaper writers began before and after the ruling as usual, asking their silly agitative questions of: Who is or will be the winner?
An entire generation of politically apathetic youngsters is being turned into an activist legion, thanks to the 'online option' they have been provided by websites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter (which gained considerable popularity in the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage) Perhaps unwittingly, these websites have spawned a brand new political constituency - noisy, restless and agitative - that today's political parties do not want to offend or ignore.
We see that the Niagara Movement members wanted to have state chapters and we see that their actions were going to be agitative, unlike Booker T.
 
 
 
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