| Russian | English |
| было очевидно, что вопрос провокационный | it was obvious that the question was loaded |
| ведущий себя провокационно | provocative (ivp) |
| задавать провокационные вопросы | load one's questions (raf) |
| крайне провокационная статья | highly provocative story (вызывающая недоброжелательство к кому-либо) |
| носить провокационный характер | be incendiary |
| отмежеваться от этих провокационных мер | dissociate oneself from the provocative measures |
| пероральный провокационный тест | oral challenge test (emmaus) |
| провокационная риторика | inflammatory language (A_Tribunsky) |
| провокационное выражение | loaded term (bigmaxus) |
| провокационное газетное сообщение | a coat-trailing newspaper report |
| провокационное мнение | hot take (Дмитрий_Р) |
| провокационные высказывания | fighting words (1. Words indicating a willingness to fight or challenge someone. EXAMPLE SENTENCES Translation: This six-letter word is fighting talk. Still to come, it's a war of words and the Democrats are studying those fighting words. ‘We're in mourning – leave us alone,' he begged, before finding his voice and a vocabulary of fighting words. 1.1US Words expressing an insult, especially of an ethnic, racial, or sexist nature. EXAMPLE SENTENCES But there was no need to touch someone you wanted to insult – you could utter fighting words instead. So why would ‘Black girl ‘yelled across a schoolyard become fighting words for me?' In the presence of fighting words, the manly form of behavior was not turning the other cheek, but rather an immediate and aggressive physical response. OD Alexander Demidov) |
| провокационные речи | inflammatory rhetoric |
| провокационные фразы | inflammatory rhetoric |
| провокационный вопрос | hardball question (антоним – softball question Pickman) |
| провокационный вопрос | leading question (a question that tricks someone into answering in a particular way. CALD. Always answer a leading question with another question and you stand a good chance of avoiding pitfalls. The Professor of Political Philosophy gave full and frank answers to the leading questions put to him, quoting philosophers like Immanuel Kant with ease. She said students learned a lot about how to put together a proper survey and about the pitfalls to avoid such as asking leading questions or ambiguous questions. OD Alexander Demidov) |
| провокационный вопрос | tricky question (Andrey Truhachev) |
| провокационный вопрос | loaded question |
| прокурор продолжал задавать провокационные вопросы в надежде получить желаемый ответ | the attorney kept loading his questions in the hope of getting the sort of reply he wanted |
| это был, как сегодня говорят, провокационный вопрос, по ответу молодого человека можно было догадаться, был он там недавно или нет | this was what in modern days is called a draw to elicit by the young man's answer whether he had been there lately or not |
