"at the slightest instigation"

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odilonredon

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Hello everyone

I came across a sentence went like this: "He had a boyish voice that could switch from serious to playful at the slightest instigation."
I want to know what "at the slightest instigation" means.
I know what "at the instigation of somebody" means, but it doesn't seem to fit in this sentence.
Or it does, and I am just reading this in a wrong way?

Thanks.
 
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Please edit your post using correct English.
 
A tip to the OP: such abbreviations as 'wanna' and 'sb' are unacceptable on this forum.

Not a teacher.
 
Thanks for the correction.
I edited my post and I hope there's no more mistakes in it.
 
Hello everyone.

I came across a sentence which went like this: "He had a boyish voice that could switch from serious to playful at the slightest instigation."
I want to know what "at the slightest instigation" means.
I know what "at the instigation of somebody" means, but it doesn't seem to fit in this sentence.
Or [strike]it[/strike] does it, and I am just reading this in [strike]a[/strike] the wrong way?

Thanks.

It works for me. Did you look up the definition(s) of "instigation".
 
The changes in the way he spoke could be triggered by very small things.
 
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