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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

... long ago with the retinue of Marco de Niza, wondering what old friend or enemy, perchance, had at last closed his ears to all of Ignacio Chavez's music. Or, at a sudden fury of clanging, the man far out on the desert might hurry on, goading his burro impatiently, to know what great event had occurred in the old adobe ...

— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory

... Terrors; he knew the throw was desperate, but with the gambler's instinct, which had always been so strong in him, he was magnetised by it because it was desperate. Pitiful egotist though he was, history may forgive him sooner than it forgives the selfish Chauvinism of Thiers, who had been goading his countrymen to war ever since Sadowa, or the insane bigotry of the party which, having triumphed over revolution at Mentana, now sought to triumph over heresy in what ...

— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... The exquisite torture of his heart racked him, but he did not turn away to shut out the sight. Rather it seemed as if he preferred to thus harass himself. It was the working of his own angry passion which held him, feeding itself, fostering, nursing itself, and goading him to fury. ...

— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum

... loved dearly the girl, 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 cherished object ...

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

... she sat there, Miriam came into the room, urged by goading impulses without number and one insupportable need. She stood near Barbara for several minutes without speaking; ...

— Flower of the Dusk • Myrtle Reed

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