Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a piquant manner; with sharpness or pungency; tartly; smartly; livelily.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a piquant manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a piquant manner; with piquancy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with strong spices; in a spicy manner

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Examples

  • Drugbuster Pillon puts the dilemma piquantly: "If we're going to legalize cocaine, put your kid first in line when the state starts to sell it."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Cool was first defined in print in 1947, in a book titled piquantly

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  • Cool was first defined in print in 1947, in a book titled piquantly

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  • It's a timeless conceit, but in "The Rules of Civility," Amor Towles sets it convincingly in a late-1930s milieu where the limousines and cocktail parties of the haut monde contrast piquantly with the wider context of the Great Depression.

    The Best Fiction of 2011 2011

  • Lush, bright and piquantly salty, lox is not a shy treat, but sliced gossamer thin, it adds delicious fishy voltage to an ordinary bagel $34 a pound, russanddaughters.com.

    Holy Smokeds 2011

  • Lush, bright and piquantly salty, lox is not a shy treat, but sliced gossamer thin, it adds delicious fishy voltage to an ordinary bagel $34 a pound, russanddaughters.com.

    Holy Smokeds 2011

  • Any serious changes, then, will result from a change of expectations as to the court's role — in particular, the expectations of the public, of the profession, and, most piquantly, of the judges themselves.

    Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010

  • Any serious changes, then, will result from a change of expectations as to the court's role — in particular, the expectations of the public, of the profession, and, most piquantly, of the judges themselves.

    Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010

  • Another champion of Karzai is NATO civilian envoy Mark Sedwill, who told me and other reporters recently that the Afghan leader is doing the best he can with the meager cards he's been dealt and who suggests, piquantly, that a better question might be whether Karzai sees the Western allies as reliable.

    Karzai Like a Fox 2010

  • Any serious changes, then, will result from a change of expectations as to the court's role — in particular, the expectations of the public, of the profession, and, most piquantly, of the judges themselves.

    Jason Smith and the Court Tunku Varadarajan 2010

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