Provoking is valid Scrabble Word

Is provoking a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is provoking valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
23 points in WWF

Definitions for PROVOKING in dictionary:

VERB:

PROVOKE, to arouse to anger or sexual desire
stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone
stimulate or incite (someone) to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them
deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry

ADJECTIVE:

Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to incite to anger or resentment

Words related to PROVOKING

provoke16 provoked18 provokes17

Words that contain PROVOKING

provokingly24 unprovoking21

How to use PROVOKING in a sentence

British advances she answered with battleships, simultaneously provoking France and Russia by increasing her army corps.
It was very provoking of Maulevrier to have brought such a man to Fellside.
He rather enjoyed provoking his father when he thought it safe.
How provoking that they should have sent us the first invitation.
But the most provoking thing of all is, that they stand still before every church they pass, bow half a dozen times, and cross themselves without end.
And it is difficult to say whether, in provoking laughter, his pen or his pencil is the more effective instrument.
By thus daring, provoking, and defying opposition both to his professional and literary reputation, he seems to us to indicate a real, if somewhat impatient love of truth.
Nobody can justly appreciate Holmes who does not perceive an impersonal earnestness and insight beneath the play of his provoking personal wit.
Nor do they like to have the reptiles killed for fear of provoking the gods that look after them.
She possessed in a high degree the feminine art of provoking a quarrel.

I had to laugh all alone while reading it, which was not a little provoking.
He never does anything I wish, and it is so provoking, because I know that he can behave as properly as possible if he likes.
And beware of provoking the indignation of slighted Love, who may make of thee a signal example of his vengeance.
With unswerving honesty, my Government, even in provoking circumstances, has pursued as its highest aim the development of all moral, spiritual, and economic powers.
The provoking cause for any emotion must be renewed constantly.
Lying upon the back or upon the abdomen frequently leads to self-abuse by provoking sexual excitement.
The refusal was the more provoking, as there was plenty of boiling water ready, and I had humbly limited my request to a spoonful of tea.
My Mother is won over to my Side, but dares not mention me to my Father for fear of provoking him.
This was a most provoking circumstance, because a larger canoe was to be procured, which could not be done without a considerable loss of time.
In a word, not walking with God according to the gospel, provoking the Lord to give them up to themselves for a time.
And a demon! Provoking demons all restraint remove.
She was glad he could see her beauty and her hair, and she raised her head and shook it back, as they started, with a provoking air.
Such provoking suspense was enough to drive the entire village demented.
The theft of its books is a serious drain on the library each year, but the destruction of its rare and valuable works of reference is still more provoking.

Similar words containing PROVOK without suffix ing

provoke16 provoked18 provoker17 provokes17 provokers18 unprovoke18 provokable21 unprovoked20 unprovokes19 provokement22 provokingly24 unprovoking21 provokements23 unprovokedly25

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