What is "provocative"

Usage examples of "provocative".

Lindeth called at Staples to leave compliment cards, she told him, with a provocative look under her lashes, that his cousin, learning that although she was an accomplished horsewoman in the saddle she had never found anyone capable of teaching her how to handle the reins in form, had begged to be allowed to offer his services.

My gratitude also goes to my Australian editrix, Margrete Lamond, for her very provocative pointers on pomp and on the behavior of gods.

Pauli, typically provocative, said that Richard Tauber, the singer from the Metropole Theatre, would be much better in the role of Frederick the Great.

The Constabulary, now almost wholly officered by Filipinos, became in effect a provocative body, pitted against the helpless Moro population.

The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life.

Friends with Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, the musician Harry Partch, de Angulo was perhaps the most hermetic and provocative of the pre-Beat individualist literary figures, and his work continues to resonate at the end of our century.

Heindral by this action from outside, the leader of the Castellans demonstrated a little redeeming wisdom by declining to issue an order for the precautionary levying of the militia, on the grounds that it would be both provocative and ineffective.

From the clean, strong lines of his face down to the tips of his polished shoes, he exuded a racy, provocative aura.

She had not accepted a ride once, which he had not expected anyway, seeing how Aiel felt about riding, but she had made no trouble either, unless sharpening her knife every time they halted could be considered provocative.

I was prepared to be snarly in a provocative and sexy way, provided I could manage my smiling and witty quarrelsomeness within acceptable limits.

A number of these assessments base their conclusions on the experience between the United States and the Soviet Union during the latter half of the Cold War, when both superpowers recognized that there was no possible gain from aggression that was worth the risk of an escalation to nuclear warfare and so generally refrained from any provocative moves toward each other.

Outlined in dark surma, her eyes shone like silver as she gave a slow, provocative smile.

She had slipped a circlet of gold around her head and forehead and had trendles of curls spilling over it and draping the side of her face, creating a very provocative and sexy look.

Her fingers tightened in mine, but I drew them forcibly again to my cock, which was beginning to show signs of new life, thanks to all this philosophical discussion whilst in the nude, and I confess that seeing her naked on the couch, clad only in those delicious and naughty black hose with their provocative rosettes to hold them firm and unwrinkled to her lovely legs, was even more whetting to my lustful appetites than all the philosophy of heaven and hell combined.

Yet her dancing was never styled to be provocative, nothing like the cootch dancer Little Egypt of an earlier generation.