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Goading

noun

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something. Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging.

Goad

verb

(past & past part. goaded; pres. part. goading)

Give heart or courage to. Synonym: spur.

Urge with or as if with a goad.

Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick. Synonym: prick.

Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism. Synonym: needle.

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"Goading" Quotes from Famous Books

... stopped as quickly, and let his anger vent itself in a sneer. It had occurred to him that Baumberger was not goading him without purpose—because Baumberger was not that kind of man. Oddly enough, he had a short, vivid, mental picture of him and the look on his face when he was playing the trout; it seemed to him that there was something of that same cruel craftiness now in his eyes and ...

— Good Indian • B. M. Bower

... but poverty hung like a leaden cloud over him. Poverty stripped him of the means of gratifying her ambition; poverty held him fast locked in its blighting chains; poverty forbid his rescuing her from the condition necessity had imposed upon her; poverty was goading him into crime; and through crime only did he see the means of securing to himself the ...

— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

... remain faithful to your duty, which is to march when ordered to the defence of the defiles. These three fellows we shall take with us, and will see that they do not further deceive you. Already they have done harm enough by goading you to theft, and to murder a man whose only fault was that he was more patriotic than they are. Be assured that in no case would you be able to carry this house. It is defended by sixteen well-armed men, and hundreds of you would throw away your lives in the attempt. ...

— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty

... said, by those who know Miss Anthony best, that she has been my good angel, always pushing and goading me to work, and that but for her pertinacity I should never have accomplished the little I have. On the other hand it has been said that I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them. Perhaps all this ...

— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function,—fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses,—were swept into captivity, in an unknown and ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

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