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1. provocative
adjective. ['proʊˈvɑːkətɪv'] serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy.
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Rhymes with Provocative
- evocative
How do you pronounce provocative?
Pronounce provocative as proʊˈvɑkətɪv.
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Sentences with provocative
1. Adjective
Do you want to be conservative or do you want to be provocative?
2. Noun, singular or mass
Consider provocative details, such as a thigh-high slit or a dangerously low back.
Quotes about provocative
1. A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person.
- Pope Francis
2. Finnick?"I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this"-- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell
- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
3. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
- Dorothy Allison
