Shit-stirring
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Shit-stirring is an adjective meaning troublemaking, especially by provoking negative behavior from others.
Meaning
troublemaking, especially by provoking negative behavior from others.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of shit-stir
Example Sentences
We should expect more attempts Tuesday night, and for Biden and Warren to spend most of their night evading competitors and shit-stirring moderators.
“They stir up more troubles and crave the whole world to be in chaos, acting like a shit-stirring stick,” Mr. Kang said on the usually stolid 7 p.m. national news program on CCTV, China’s state broadcaster.
She’s built and maintained an improbable career based solely on her prodigious shit-stirring and her ability to turn every tragedy, from the death of her fiancé, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, to the election of this calamitous president, into attention for herself.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include troublemaking, mischievous, disruptive, mischiefmaking, triggery, backbiting.
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