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.

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

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

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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.

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

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