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There’s one mission called “Sinnerman” that is the game’s most shocking, vulgar, and simultaneously its most thought provoking.
‘CYBERPUNK 2077,’ THREE MONTHS LATERGENE PARKMARCH 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOf course, this is less about making money and more about provoking discussion.
FORGET YOUR FIVE-YEAR PLAN: WHAT IF WE VISUALIZED HUMANITY’S FUTURE IN CENTURIES, MILLENNIA, AND BEYOND?THOMAS HORNIGOLDDECEMBER 31, 2020SINGULARITY HUB But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSFear not their words, neither be thou dismayed at their looks: for they are a provoking house.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSSon of man, hath not the house of Israel, the provoking house, said to thee: What art thou doing?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSIt was plain that Scotland could not alone support the charge of a contest with the enemy whom Paterson was bent on provoking.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYIt certainly does not sparkle now, but it must have come of a witty stock, and have boasted a mirth-provoking pedigree.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANHe revolted against it, as a thing more provoking, more incorrigible than mere womanhood.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRThis gentleman was regularly introduced to him, and warned by his master against ever provoking him.
MINNIE'S PET DOGMADELINE LESLIEBut from where he sat on his favorite roost in the tall pine-tree he could see that provoking egg, a little spot of shining white.
BLACKY THE CROWTHORNTON W. BURGESSWORDS RELATED TO PROVOKING
- afflictive
- annoying
- bad
- brutal
- calamitous
- cruel
- dire
- disagreeable
- displeasing
- distasteful
- disturbing
- galling
- grievous
- hard
- harsh
- heartbreaking
- hurtful
- inclement
- intemperate
- intense
- merciless
- offensive
- poignant
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- rigorous
- rugged
- ruthless
- savage
- severe
- sharp
- stinging
- unpalatable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
- woeful
- aggravating
- agitating
- alarming
- annoying
- bothersome
- burdensome
- consequential
- creepy
- depressing
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomforting
- discommoding
- discomposing
- disconcerting
- discouraging
- dismaying
- distressing
- embarrassing
- foreboding
- frightening
- gloomy
- harassing
- hard
- impeding
- inconvenient
- irksome
- irritating
- laborious
- ominous
- onerous
- painful
- perplexing
- perturbing
- pessimistic
- prophetic
- provoking
- severe
- sinister
- startling
- threatening
- tiresome
- toilsome
- troublesome
- troubling
- trying
- uncertain
- unpleasant
- unsettling
- upsetting
- vexing
- wearisome
- worrisome
- worrying
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.