For well over a century, artists have been trying to rile us, making us question ourselves and our society.
Sheikh Hamza, however, refused to join in and rile up the people.
First, to rile up white people about black people and let their lurid imaginations roam.
Michael Tomasky says they can't win the swing vote, so they're going with Plan B: rile up the base.
In other words, they want more than anything else not to rile up liberals.
They rile me—that talk about 'people in the humbler walks of life.'
An' arter a day or two ye come back an' look agin, an' where's the rile?
His p. 156letters in the papers used to rile my people terribly.
And when you rile up at the rot about "'Arries Abroad," I agree.
rile some other pool with your clumsy hoofs, and let your betters alone after this!
1825, American English spelling alteration to reflect a dialectal pronunciation of roil (q.v.); cf. heist from hoist and in the same era spile for spoil (v.). Bartlett writes that in both England and America roil "is now commonly pronounced and written rile" ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]. Related: Riled; riling.
