What on earth had Hugh Puddephat done to provoke such passionate hatred in this well-mannered woman?

The wearing of furs was soon to provoke hatred on the streets, but not in the early seventies.

This in return provoked hatred of the villagers.

Schellenberg was very frank in criticizing our attitude toward foreign states, which, quite unnecessarily, had provoked hatred; our Jewish policy, for instance.

Didn't it strike you that you are provoking religious hatred?

Media that are "immoral, brutalizing, or which provoke violence, crime or racial hatred" are named as examples of this.

A state prosecutor investigated whether she might be put on trial for provoking religious hatred.

He had never meant to provoke so much anger and hatred for stating what he saw as the truth.

He went on to say that American military, economic and diplomatic might and offensive cultural messages understandably provoked hatred.

He was found guilty of "provoking hatred."