piquant
IPA: pˈikʌnt
adjective
- (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
- Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.
- Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
- Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.
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Examples of "piquant" in Sentences
- The liquor has a piquant flavor.
- Very tangy and piquant, spicey I guess.
- It has a piquant, but not very sharp taste.
- It is a dark, reddish paste with a rich, piquant flavour.
- His spectacular disgrace adds a piquant note to his biography.
- Some people add a smear of HP sauce for a more piquant flavour.
- That is what you may call piquant, it braces and refreshes a man.
- Their flavor has been described as piquant and fresh, with a bright aroma.
- Picong or Piquant is light comical banter, usually at someone else's expense.
- One purpose is flavor, the nitrites giving a sharp, piquant flavor to the meat.
- Scenes that might read mawkish in other hands feel fresh, piquant and hilariously sad.
- There was a kind of piquant joy in their hearts as they crept up past the Tower, and saw its mighty walls and guns across the water.
- One saving grace would be that the MxDW at least wouldn't have that lovely, "piquant" flavor from being smuggled in empty ammonia tankers.
- Mr. Buruma skirts the issue by calling this cruel man "fastidious and difficult," "piquant," a "trickster," ... or an example of "bad boy behavior."
- He soon tired of the others, wanted something new; recalled the piquant character of the girl and took a fancy into his head that she would lighten his ennui.
- Mrs. Cary's "piquant" -- pronounced in a manner that was neither French nor English, but a startling mixture of both -- had a background to it of charitable patronage.
- It looks certainly very graceful, fresh, animated, "piquant," as they love to say -- yes! and withal, I repeat, perfectly pure, and may well congratulate itself on the loan of a fallacious grace, not its own.
- What is particularly piquant — that's right I used the word piquant — about the conflation of Nicaragua and El Salvador is that it suggests America's entire effort "down there" was nothing but folly, hubris, and imperialism.
- It was the old world and the new one brought face to face with a vengeance! the contrast rendered the more piquant from the fact of the new one being represented by the worthy middle-aged baronet, the old by the girl of seventeen.