provokingly

[pruh-vohk-ing-lee]

adverb

1. in a way that tends or seeks to provoke; irritatingly or annoyingly.

Example Sentences

More provokingly, she said that democratic socialism is the future of the Democratic Party.

From The New Yorker

Director Kornel Mundruczo, from Hungary which has taken a particularly hard line on immigration, called it a "provokingly political movie" but also "happily playful".

From Reuters

A love song to a six-year-old boy resists the expected innuendoes, in favour of something provokingly innocent.

From The Guardian

It is worth noting, however, that Herder in his provokingly tentative way of thinking comes now and again very near ideas made familiar to us by Spencer and Darwin.

From Project Gutenberg

The expression of his face, especially of his eyes, strangely and provokingly reminds me of Kossuth.

From Project Gutenberg