Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.
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Examples for "provoking "
Examples for "provoking "
1 However, many described the information gathering process as frustrating and anxiety provoking .
2 Europe Now wants to be a space for thought provoking , stimulating views.
3 The members blamed police for the incident saying police were provoking them.
4 Yet much of the relatively short book deals in genuinely thought - provoking ideas.
5 The result is an engaging and thought - provoking first book, writes Sorcha Hamilton.
1 Yet others within the party are agitating for a change in leadership.
2 A little over a year ago, Wolfe Tone was arrested for agitating .
3 In the press of agitating events, both forgot the incident-forthe time.
4 These problems were always agitating the comrades; their lives revolved about them.
5 And the strain of waiting became agitating to the point of distress.
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