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provocative
adjective as in aggravating
adjective as in sexually stimulating
Example Sentences
They found him intellectually engaging, admired his provocative curiosity and became his friends.
Yet a pair of recent studies about comb jellies raise provocative questions about Descartes’ maxim.
Seattle Times’ late disabled critic Jeff Shannon described Timmy as the most “progressive, provocative and socially relevant disability humour ever presented on American television”.
The two nations have closely integrated supply chains that, experts say, could put a brake on Trump’s provocative tariff plans.
In fact, a few months into his Senate run, in February 2022, surveys of the GOP primary showed Vance polling in the single digits, trailing both businessman Mike Gibbons and Joshua Mandel, a onetime moderate who’d become an early imitator of Trump’s provocative style.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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