piquant 的定义
- agreeably pungent or sharp in taste or flavor; pleasantly biting or tart: a piquant aspic.
- agreeably stimulating, interesting, or attractive: a piquant glance.
- of an interestingly provocative or lively character: a piquant wit.
- Archaic. sharp or stinging, especially to the feelings.
piquant 近义词
flavorful, biting
更多piquant例句
- The actors assembled for “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” — Tracy Lynn Olivera, Awa Sal Secka and Katie Mariko Murray — carve a piquant new niche in the pantheon of stylish trios for this comic Andrews Sisters pastiche.
- The more piquant your vinegar, the more oil you’ll need to counter it, but go by what tastes good to you.
- A couple of years before, he had applied his special broth of piquant newspaperese to the pages of Spin magazine.
- That she also has a West African background, like alleged victim Nafissatou Diallo, only makes her testimony more piquant.
- If you hurry, you'll still find sun-kissed yellows, rusty reds, and an orange so piquant you'll want a bite out of it.
- What is so piquant here is not the fact that Hillary understands that Obama is president.
- Her movements were free, her figure dainty and her repartee, below her mask, more than usually piquant.
- Their conversation is certainly tamer and less piquant than that of the American or the French ladies.
- The book contains a mass of good material, with original characterization, and is written in a style piquant and clever.
- Nothing can be more suave, piquant, and picturesque than the wild and primitive melodies of the songs of Scotland.
- Madame Colleville was a Parisian, piquant, winning and pretty, as well as clever and ethereal.