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Definition of inflammatory : 1. Accompanied with, or tending to cause, preternatural heat and excitement of arterial action; as, an inflammatory disease.
2. Tending to excite anger, animosity, tumult, or sedition; seditious; as, inflammatory libels, writings, speeches, or publications.
3. Tending to inflame, kindle, or irritate.

Synonyms:

rebellious, seditious, insurgent, incendiary, incitive, fiery, unhealthy, passionate, rabble-rousing, instigative, provocative, subversive

Usage examples:

• Aleander was in danger of being murdered by the Lutheran populace, instigated thereto by Hutten's inflammatory letters from the neighbouring Castle of Ebernburg, in which Franz von Sickingen had given him a refuge. - "German Culture Past and Present", Ernest Belfort Bax.
• This division in the English ministry, with the ill condition of their finances for war, produces a disposition even in the King, to try first every pacific measure: and that country and this were laboring jointly to stop the course of hostilities in Holland, to endeavor to effect an accommodation, and were scarcely executing at all the armaments ordered in their ports; when all of a sudden an inflammatory letter, written by the Princess of Orange to the King of Prussia, induces him, without consulting England, without consulting even his own Council, to issue orders by himself to his generals, to march twenty thousand men to revenge the insult supposed to be offered to his sister. - "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson", Thomas Jefferson.
• He did not tell them the disease was Slavery; he called it inflammatory rheumatism. - "The Freedmen's Book", Lydia Maria Child.