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Перевод: provocative

[прилагательное]
вызывающий; дерзкий; соблазнительный; провокационный; возбуждающий; стимулирующий; задорный; раздражающий;
[существительное]
возбудитель ; возбуждающее средство

Тезаурус:

1. "You provocative little minx, you."
2. A more contemporary example of this problem facing the police when they have to decide upon the choice between seeking to ban a procession or to protect and facilitate its progress is well illustrated by the events of Saturday 13 August 1977 in Lewisham, when the National Front marched through the busy streets in a provocative manner, much to the distress and anger of local residents, particularly those belonging to ethnic minorities.
3. There is only the odd passing comment on what makes a film or TV programme politically effective, how form and content might combine to produce the politically challenging and provocative programmes that the left would presumably like to see.
4. One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route.
5. Provocative dress and casual promiscuity (which are by no means the same thing) may be abhorrent to juries in the southern states of America or to judges in this country.
6. "Oh, we've told the police that under no circumstances will we take any provocative action from them."
7. But perhaps the most provocative comments pertain to an incident during the Oval Test in which umpire John Holder confronted Graham Gooch, with the ball "having been apparently artificially roughened".
8. Raven's mode of running a class was provocative.
9. Davie's provocative point is well taken.
10. Something of the underlying flavour of the symposium has been inevitably lost, and unfortunately some of the more provocative papers are not in my present remit.
11. Although Landry approaches her subject from a very different perspective than does this study, her work is certainly bold, thoughtful, and provocative.
12. "I have never thought of anything I undertook as provocative.
13. When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale - who had surely modelled himself on Dickens's character Mr Bounderby - he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically: "Is this a reason to laugh?"