0 present participle of goad
1 to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them:
2 to touch an animal with the end of a pointed object in order to make it angry or encourage it to do something:
This remained a populist and effective means of goading the administration.
There was no slacking on the one hand or goading on the other.
It is interesting to note that in goading us to find the answer he was rather short on solutions himself.
I hope that he will consider the system again to ensure that there is no goading one way or the other.
The whole trend of agriculture under the goading demands of war has been towards increasingly mechanized and scientific methods of production.
They do not realise the danger of goading hungry men and women to action that might lead to very serious trouble.
He was goading me after my reference to what happened in 1920.
It would be interesting to ascertain the limit to such goading.