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provocatively

adv. In a stimulative manner.

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provocatively

adv. in a provocative manner; "`Try it,' he said provocatively" [syn: provokingly]

Usage examples of "provocatively".

Mademoiselle Markoff, allowing a lock of blonde hair to fall provocatively over one beady little red eye.

Quite from where she had gained the knowledge that the tip of her tongue tracing the outline of his lips, lingering provocatively on the bottom one and slipping between their parted hardness, would make him groan in protest and then draw her tongue into the heat of his mouth, his control splintering so that she could almost feel the desire running like quick silver through his veins, she had no idea, but gained it she most definitely had.

He tried to imagine Valentina behaving provocatively: those eyes coyly retreating, perhaps, tilting her chin, glancing over her shoulder, parting her mouth, signals common to women of his own species the world over, in his day.

The supervisor of police was provocatively clad in black leather trunks with a studded codpiece hanging from the crotch.

Shall we point out other aspects of her lithesome figure, poking out and in and curving provocatively and cathartically under the dreamy creamy silk of her dress surely a prototype of pubescent perfection?

Mehh flipped onto her belly and crept insouciantly, provocatively, into the mating position with her tail high and to the side, presenting her nether quarters to the male.

Two were women, one old and cronelike, the other younger and dressed provocatively.

On the beaten stretch of sand below where James Bond was sitting, two golden girls in exciting bikinis packed up the game of Jokari which they had been so provocatively playing, and raced each other up the steps towards Bond's shelter.

On his starting and sickening at the sight, one of Moipu's young men picked up a human foot, and provocatively staring at the stranger, grinned and nibbled at the heel.

As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs- the men on one side and the women on the other- who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.

The young girl kept coming forward, placing one foot directly in front of the other, so that her hips would sway provocatively.

It was a matter of pure ego that made her lean provocatively against the door to wait until he'd finished.

In private I work on something that might eventually turn out to be a memoir of the war—an old-fashioned serialized text provocatively promoting a single viewpoint, without any pretense at objectivity—while in public I live on my savings.