Usually means: Provoking reaction through deliberate actions.
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  1. coat-trailing: Wiktionary
  2. coat-trailing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  3. coat-trailing: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. coat-trailing: Dictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coat-trailing)

▸ noun:  (UK) A disingenuous act or arrangement intended to provoke a desired response.

Similar:
coat trailing, trickery, trickeration, bait and switch, trichery, trick, deceit, cantrip, dirty trick, Trollope ploy, more...

Opposite:
modesty, humility, unassuming

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Similar:
coat trailing, trickery, trickeration, bait and switch, trichery, trick, deceit, cantrip, dirty trick, Trollope ploy, more...

Opposite:
modesty, humility, unassuming



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