Antonyms for provoking
prəˈvoʊ kɪŋpro·vok·ing

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1. agitative, agitating, provokingadjective

   causing or tending to cause anger or resentment

   "a provoking delay at the airport"

   Antonyms:
   unprovoking, unprovocative

   Synonyms:
   agitative, agitating

How to use provoking in a sentence?

1. Adrienne Rich:

   As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

2. Carl Tobias:

   The litigation is a normal and expected action to occur when a tenant has a lease and does not pay rent required by a valid contract with the landlord, these types of disputes often settle without provoking litigation, so as to avoid litigation costs and bad publicity.

3. Lisa Damour:

   It will have the opposite effect of what we would want for kids, rather than the physical affection being comforting and reassuring, it becomes anxiety-provoking.

4. Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov:

   The U.S. is pushing them and in the end they are provoking Iran to create a nuclear bomb, unequivocally.

5. Michael Oakeshott:

   Thoughts of different species take wing and play round one another, responding to each other’s movements and provoking one another to fresh exertions. Nobody asks where they have come from or on what authority they are present; nobody cares what will become of them when they have played their part.

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