What's the difference between firebug and incendiary?

Firebug


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Incendiary


Definition:

  • (n.) Any person who maliciously sets fire to a building or other valuable or other valuable property.
  • (n.) A person who excites or inflames factions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to incendiarism, or the malicious burning of valuable property; as, incendiary material; as incendiary crime.
  • (a.) Tending to excite or inflame factions, sedition, or quarrel; inflammatory; seditious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The caption blamed "the dogs of the Interior [ministry]", and claimed that incendiary bombs had been fired at the building by police, "causing a very big fire" that "burned everything to ashes".
  • (2) Hillary Clinton has a message for Republicans bemoaning the rise of Donald Trump: “You reap what you sow.” In a speech on Monday, the former secretary of state blamed Republicans’ obstructionism, which she said fomented Trump’s incendiary campaign.
  • (3) Donald Trump on Sunday stood by incendiary remarks in which he mocked Senator John McCain over his capture during the Vietnam war, refusing to bow to a chorus of criticism from Republicans and insisting he has no plans to pull out of the party’s presidential nomination contest.
  • (4) FOLLOW MY LEADER: THE BIG SPEECHES Cameron will need to hit the Tory sweet spot if he is to send everyone home happy – and that means avoiding incendiary issues in the shires, such as gay marriage and the green agenda.
  • (5) "I think his genius is to make people feel comfortable, and then lob in the incendiary."
  • (6) We found alterations in the ends of a man's hair, changes that were suspected of being incendiary.
  • (7) That was followed by an incendiary row between the administration and the media about the fact that the crowds were smaller at Trump’s 2017 inauguration than at Obama’s in 2008.
  • (8) Netanyahu’s incendiary comments come amid a rising death toll and accusations of incitement on both sides, with Israelis pointing to comments made by Palestinian officials and inflammatory material on social media, and Palestinians equally accusing Netanyahu’s government of fanning the flames and pointing to anti-Palestinian material on social media.
  • (9) When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became Iran's president seven years ago, he made his presence felt through incendiary statements targeted at Israel and the west.
  • (10) We have gathered evidence that the cause of this mortality is the highly toxic, incendiary munition white phosphorus (P4).
  • (11) Some have pointed to the seemingly planned nature of many of the attacks; UN special envoy Vijay Nambiar said the violence had a "brutal efficiency" and cited "incendiary propaganda" as stirring up trouble .
  • (12) So incendiary were the interview's contents evidently deemed that it was practically smuggled out of the Vatican, with so few senior officials reportedly aware of its tenor that the consensus is that it has sent "shock waves" around the Catholic world.
  • (13) Call of Duty: Black Ops The latest instalment in the incendiary first-person shooter series has sold more than 20 million copies.
  • (14) This is some of the most incendiary art of the 20th century in this encounter with Schiele’s erotic portraits.
  • (15) Having identified him as the author of an incendiary early play, Victory Celebrations, with some bitter anti-Soviet comments in it, the KGB circulated copies to members of the Writers' Union, and advocated his expulsion.
  • (16) No one was injured but local US congressman Paul Ruiz said an incendiary device may have caused the fire and urged the incident be investigated as a hate crime.
  • (17) Trump, despite a lack of political experience and incendiary comments on immigration and Senator John McCain, is still tracking in first place – even after he said McCain was “not a war hero” .
  • (18) Sturgeon’s incendiary talk of smashing the system is entirely democratic – and many who vote SNP are not separatists.
  • (19) Later Martin announced an immediate interim ban on MPs claiming for furniture and the "flipping" of second homes, two of the most incendiary practices to emerge from the expenses scandal.
  • (20) The most incendiary aspect of the scandal so far was the public release earlier this month of an email exchange between Wildstein and Christie’s then deputy chief of staff, Bridget Kelly, in which she told him: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.” In the letter, Zegas expresses a sense of betrayal on the part of Wildstein towards Christie, his former boss who was also his high-school classmate.

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