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piquant

/pee-kuhnt, -kahnt, pee-kahnt/US // ˈpi kənt, -kɑnt, piˈkɑnt //UK // (ˈpiːkənt, -kɑːnt) //

尖刻的,尖刻,尖锐的,有趣的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.