Significados de as provocative em inglês

He denounced the missile launch as provocative but made no sudden moves.

Mme Lerat had become ceremonious; she refused the radishes as provocative of phlegm.

She viewed any attempt to control her life as provocative and possibly hostile.

This year's art degree shows feature talent as provocative and original as ever.

For some reason, he saw the whole thing as provocative.

Like the subject of servants, it is as provocative of conversation as classical music.

The Rose Club's emblem was as provocative as the name.

To describe them as provocative would be an understatement.

Iran sees Israel's actions in Syria as provocative.

It's not as provocative as it could be.

But Cohn-Bendit, scruffy, unshaven and as provocative as ever, said the atmosphere was utterly different to 1968.

China has been angered by what it views as provocative U.S. military patrols close to the islands.

It remains a theory that is as provocative and as difficult to define as the man himself.

China described the action as provocative.

The whole movement seemed as provocative, and indeed exciting, as Brigitte Bardot in her slinky, sex kitten heyday.

Golding's classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature remains as provocative today as when it was first published.