Similar words: provocative, provocation, provocateur, agent provocateur, evocative, locative, natively, protectively. Meaning: [prə'vɑkətɪvlɪ /-'vɒk-] adv. in a provocative manner.
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1. Behaving provocatively in class is just inviting trouble.
2. But London, provocatively, was wreathed in blue veiling.
3. Neal Lawson refers provocatively but also enviously to the early Thatcherites' political and intellectual "brilliance".
4. In another, the girls perform provocatively with chairs as the stage is covered in different patterns of changing light.
5. He provocatively proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1, 000 years old have already been born.
6. More provocatively, antiprotons in the belt might one day be harvested to fuel missions that would travel far beyond the solar system, Bickford says.
7. On September 18, 1931, Japanese troops provocatively destroyed a section of railway in north Shenyang and attacked the Chinese garrison at Beidaying, Shenyang, on the same night.
8. One of the earliest was Polaroid's provocatively named camera, "The Swinger" -- ostensibly so-calledbecause of a strap that let it dangle from the user's wrist.
9. More provocatively , about 10% of respondents said they would want genetic testing for athletic ability, while another 10% voted for improved height.
10. The other provocatively suggests that the concept of empire has an undeservedly bad reputation and, further, the world could do a lot worse than having to live under a putative American empire.
11. I know I dress provocatively on stage, but it's just rock 'n' roll.
12. If that were true, he asked provocatively , "What place, then, for a creator?"
13. The soldiers fired into the air when the demonstrators behaved provocatively.
14. She knelt between his knees looking small and vulnerable: her lips pouting provocatively, her eyes full of feminine promise.
15. When he came in to find her, she was standing on her head in a sexy leotard, legs provocatively parted.
16. A number were killed by the mobs but not a fraction of the number who foolishly or provocatively invited his fate.
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17. Kim Jong-Il's possession of nuclear weapons has convinced him he can act provocatively without punishment.
18. Socrates seems, or could be seen, to be speaking not just ironically but provocatively in describing himself as a gift of the god.
19. Democracy or dictatorship, the golden ships still hung in the sky and shone provocatively.
20. In the end, Iran backed out of the deal and provocatively started enriching to 20% itself (a big step further towards the high-enriched stuff need for a bomb).
21. Be street smart. Don't wear expensive jewelry or dress provocatively .
22. Already, you can see around town Italianised Chinese teenagers, the girls particularly conspicuous in their chic, often provocatively cut outfits and heavy makeup.
23. "There is a problem ... with people who mistake the street for a striptease, " archpriest Chaplin wrote, adding that women who dressed provocatively would not find decent husbands.
24. A number of detainees have accused female interrogators of violating Muslim sexual taboos by touching them provocatively.
25. Japanese official says there is no evidence the Chinese government has been encouraging fishermen to behave provocatively.
26. A Japanese official says there is no evidence the Chinese government has been encouraging fishermen to behave provocatively.
More similar words: provocative, provocation, provocateur, agent provocateur, evocative, locative, natively, protectively, productively, prospectively, negatively, creatively, relatively, tentatively, imperatively, comparatively, meditatively, cooperatively, cumulatively, figuratively, imaginatively, alternatively, speculatively, qualitatively, affirmatively, conservatively, appreciatively, quantitatively, demonstratively, authoritatively.