Stirrer-up

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.

    "He also revelled in controversy and was a great mischief-maker and stirrer-up of trouble[.]"

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"He also revelled in controversy and was a great mischief-maker and stirrer-up of trouble[.]"

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