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- adjective not provocative
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Examples
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| Reply | Permalink fogu2 ... you are such a dickhead ... you really are becoming boring and your posts are really unprovoking ... losing your edge?
McCain Camp's New Attack: Obama Is The One Who's The Same As Bush 2009
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904
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Whenever they have spoken at all they have said this; and they have said it on what has appeared good reason to them; the marching of an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to _you_ may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to _us_.
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History John George Nicolay 1866
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 Abraham Lincoln 1837
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The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837
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POWET.TV 2009
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If theres hatred toward zionists, its not like they’re innocent and unprovoking, the victim.
Think Progress » Gingrich: ‘This Is, In Fact, World War III’ And The U.S. ‘Ought To Be Helping’ 2006
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