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Adjective: provocative  pru'vó-ku-tiv
  1. Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy
    "a provocative remark"; "a provocative smile"; "provocative Irish tunes which...compel the hearers to dance"
     
  2. Intentionally arousing sexual desire
    "her gestures and postures became more wanton and provocative"

See also: agitating, agitative, challenging, charged, exciting, incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, intriguing, provoking, rabble-rousing, rousing, seditious, sexy [informal]

Antonym: unprovoking

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