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provocation
  1. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
  2. Something that provokes; a provocative act
  3. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
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    1. “It was understood that it would not be possible to resist this much longer in the face of continued provocation from the North.”
      “The test was whether a man would have been induced by the provocation to act as the accused acted.”
      “Where homicide is committed without provocation, malice is implied.”
provocateur
  1. One who engages in provocative behavior.
  2. An undercover agent who incites suspected persons to partake in or commit criminal acts.
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    1. “The novelist is unapologetic and still keen to play the part of provocateur.”
      “After hours poring over the documents I think it entirely justifiable to argue that one man acted as an agent provocateur.”
      “He isn't really so much a provocateur as he is a sort of freelance imbecile, a flesh and blood cartoon.”
provocative
  1. (now historical) Something that provokes an appetite, especially a sexual appetite; an aphrodisiac. [from 15th c.]
provoker
  1. A person who provokes; a troublemaker
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    1. “To a significant degree, the victim was an initiator, willing participant, aggressor, or provoker of the incident.”
      “But he was no foolish provoker of hostility and was content to pay up when the toll collectors arrived with weaponry.”
      “That guy is a provoker, a really bad person, but the way I see it, the more I talk about it, the more he gets what he wants.”
provokingness
  1. The state or condition of being provoking.
provocateuse
provokee
  1. One who is subjected to provocation.
provocativeness
  1. The quality of being provocative
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    1. “Much has been written about the lecherousness of his smirks, but such provocativeness on his part definitely began in a presexual period.”
      “He doesn't worry that his provocativeness will alienate customers or critics.”
      “But, with some provocativeness, Payne assigns Lewinskian disempowerment not to the younger woman, but to the older man.”
provocator
  1. One who engages in provocation.
provokement
  1. (now rare) Provocation.
provocateuses
  1. plural of provocateuse
provocations
  1. plural of provocation
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    1. “Their words sometimes resemble curses smacking of trash, provocations or an outburst of their personal emotion or the emotion of their own group.”
      “The insurgents take advantage of darkness to conduct provocations during armistices or when negotiations are underway.”
      “Particularly in the eighteenth century lexicons were infinitely lively, full of satire, poetry and provocations.”
provocateurs
  1. plural of provocateur
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    1. “As it is, I believe that trading standards should use children as agents provocateurs to gauge which shops are abiding to the law.”
      “Doonan sees these provocateurs not as a bunch of kooky broads but as important representatives of the evolution of women's culture.”
      “Is it not understood that this government has in the not-very-distant past sent out agents provocateurs?”
provocatives
  1. plural of provocative
provokements
  1. plural of provokement
provocators
  1. plural of provocator
provokers
  1. plural of provoker
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    1. “As only a few speculating trend provokers start slashing prices, the market price trend is smoothly declining and remains predictable.”
      “It urged for issuing an overt condemnation against the Qatari and Saudi governments, being the terrorists' funders and provokers.”
      “Only if you do this, will you identify the main instigators and provokers.”
provokees
  1. plural of provokee
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