Very unpleasant and provocative (5)

I believe the answer is:

toxic

(Other definitions for toxic that I've seen before include "Poisonous, noxious" , "Deadly - venomous" , "Harmful - cox it (anag)" , "word describing bad things" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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