provokingly
Americanadverb
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Alas, Terry also admires Nadia, Célestin’s beautiful and provokingly reticent wife, a singer with a Haitian band.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
She is known to want naval parity with Britain and the U. S. but her want thus far has been made known by Tokyo statesmen in statements provokingly unofficial.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disdaining pitchfork theatrics, he is a provokingly cool customer even when buying souls, with a tart, casual manner and a fine, stylish unwholesomeness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is also spectacular, beautiful in patches and coldly, provokingly weird in others, sometimes both at once.
From Time Magazine Archive
An accident that seemed provokingly unreal and soothingly unimportant—Tom Ramsey.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
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