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fighting word

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fighting word
n.
A word that one uses to provoke a fight or hostility. Often used in the plural: "Fighting words are categorically excluded from the protection of the First Amendment ... [because] their content embodies a particularly intolerable and socially unnecessary mode of expressing whatever idea the speaker wishes to convey" (Antonin Scalia).


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To speak colloquially, them's fighting words," not dialoguing words.
Can we all please watch our language? by Edgar-Labelle, Michelle / Anglican Journal
Like Black Feminist Thought, Fighting Words promotes untiringly standpoint theory/praxis as a strategy for fighting the discourse and institutions which exclude and erase black women's contributions to African American culture, feminism, and post-modernism.
Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Clarke, Cheryl / African American Review
1953 Amazing to recall, now that he is as permanently enshrined in the pantheon of artist-deities as Matisse or Mondrian, but Rothko, back in the early '50s, was a fighting word.
Isn't it Romantic? by Rosenblum, Robert / Artforum International
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