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provokingly
adverb
literaryuk /prəˈvəʊ.kɪŋ.li/ us /prəˈvoʊ.kɪŋ.li/
in a way that is intended to be annoying:
"You haven't changed, I see," remarked Ethel provokingly.
He found the English provokingly lacking in curiosity about other nations.
He provokingly refused to accept this joke as an insult.
She was sometimes provokingly unwilling to complete her manual labours.
I soon grew tired of studying them, as they appeared so provokingly mindless, and heartless, and artificial.
He had certainly behaved provokingly, but it was nobody else's business.
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rub someone up the wrong wayidiom
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ruffle someone's feathersidiom
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