"provocatively" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 75:",
          "text": "The two tables Peter approved of highly when they arrived next day and when Rita said provocatively to Peter's vanity, \"Don't tell me you'll really be able to repeat that pattern as finely,\" Peter replied boastfully, \"I'll do as good a job as the original, if not better.\"",
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          "sense": "in a provocative manner",
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          "sense": "in a provocative manner",
          "word": "provokatorisesti"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "in a provocative manner",
          "word": "provokatiivisesti"
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          "sense": "in a provocative manner",
          "word": "wyzywająco"
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          "sense": "in a provocative manner",
          "word": "provocativamente"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "in a provocative manner",
      "word": "provocativament"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a provocative manner",
      "word": "provokatorisesti"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in a provocative manner",
      "word": "provokatiivisesti"
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      "sense": "in a provocative manner",
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      "sense": "in a provocative manner",
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