The phrase 'provocative attitude' is correct and usable in written English.
The phrase can be used to describe someone's behavior that is intentionally designed to provoke or offend someone else. Example sentence: His provocative attitude and rude comments provoked a strong reaction from the other students in the classroom.
Ms. Goldberg said this provocative attitude was an abdication of judicial responsibility.
In 1995, when Mr. Mullet bought land in Bergholz, he was already known as a loner with a provocative attitude.
They detained dozens of people at the first sign of misbehavior racial slurs, obscenities or anyone with what was described as a "provocative attitude".
"Everyone wants to blame others for their own failures," Laughlin says of the Atlanta murders, a provocative attitude that is diluted because it is used to reveal the reporter's boyhood more than it is to enrich his current situation.
The Nazis will furthermore assert that the provocative attitude of the Poles, the dislike of the Danzig Germans for Poland, and the many incidents thus rendered inevitable, make the situation intolerable, and demand that a solution shall be found without delay.
Many senior Iraqi officials were already anticipating that arms inspections would be getting under way for the first time since 1998, warning that the new inspectors should not adopt the kind of provocative attitude that led to so many crises in the past.
From its inception on the French stage in the second half of the 18th century and the provocative "attitudes" struck by Emma Hart, the later Lady Hamilton, the tableau vivant has problematized the role of the body in art, while challenging notions of high and low art, copy and original, mimesis and illusionism, picture and performance.
Like Jody (Schine's 39-year-old insomniac music teacher), the representative modern woman of "Is Sex Necessary?" had a piquant way of talking with men about "exhilarating topics, and sitting with them in provocative attitudes," then "going quietly home to bed".
"I am proud to have been a young communist, but when you aspire to be president of a country like Spain, you have to let go of certain provocative attitudes," he said Sunday night in a television interview.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle is irritated with Ana's poor attitude, provocative wardrobe, and disregard for her curfew or other rules.
People blamed the victim, arguing that his "attitude" was provocative, and that he wasn't a "real champion".
