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    pique


    1. If it was to cinder them or warp them into a bloody mush, or whatever starships did in a fit of pique, so be it


    2. He was also deeply impressed by the sheer opulence on display inside his friend’s sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff who walked today’s streets, he wondered whether he could get a car like this as a perk of his new job


    3. sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff


    4. “The nerve!” said a large mackerel, his mustaches twitching with pique


    5. “I wasn’t always a poet,” Homer answered with a touch of pique


    6. postulated that she had tried to over-rule its recommendation, and in a fit of pique had attempted to disable it in a violent manner


    7. She thought of the last time she had hastily devised a scheme to pique his interest


    8. “Never heard of them,” he replied, trying to stifle his pique


    9. As he was searching the room for anything that might pique his interest, he heard Amonas beside him grunt and moan slightly


    10. The sea had not given up Rosemary's lover; and Norman Douglas, then a handsome, red-haired young giant, noted for wild driving and noisy though harmless escapades, had quarrelled with Ellen and left her in a fit of pique

    11. Sights that pique the interest for the couple in Orange Beach,


    12. Out of pique, Dino then piled it on by ordering Jim Candelaria’s Program Management Business Office Group to also report to him via me


    13. “What else is there worth working for?” Pique said wistfully


    14. Pique swatted his hand


    15. “Sorry,” Pique said, mockingly raising his hands


    16. whilst Frankie chattered with Pique about the magma gun's


    17. Pique and Wellington in the other


    18. and saw that Ryan had led Pique and Muirhead away with so


    19. After lunch Charly worked steadily around the house while Trask sat and read—criticizing her library, mostly classics that failed to pique his interest


    20. A few sentences structured in an upbeat description will be more than adequate to pique the interest of the buyers who are interested in fixer-uppers

    21. As she took out a stick in pique, he provoked her to ignite herself


    22. I had been lying on the door sill of the main gate for three weeks when I smelled something that just managed to pique my curiosity


    23. He shrieked as in a pique:


    24. These inventive activities not only pique their imaginations, but also teach them how to follow direction as well


    25. You would be expected to pique their interest and create relevant


    26. He was surprisingly handsome in spite of his disarray and filth and an unsettling pique came over her as female intuition raised its curious head


    27. Should I ask for a date now? Wait? Will pressing so soon cause her to lose interest? Maybe pique it with my boldness? He decided there was nothing to lose, and if he really did want to get to


    28. He walked past countless stands of fir trees, past barren mountain ridges with nothing to offer for a view except great boulders, some sitting in patterns with no apparent logic, like they had been flung there by some titan of the past in a fit of pique, long since forgotten


    29. The horses were magnificent creatures, like small carthorses, and Autumn remarked that the men were very fine, too (which wound Alfie up in a fit of jealous pique for the rest of the day)


    30. With a shriek of pique, he let loose a volley of all-consuming blue-fire at his former opponent

    31. and you can show one or two techniques to pique the prospects interest


    32. Pique their interest


    33. Modi will not concede it, but he had been anguished by his years of political ‘isolation’; now, he finally felt politically ‘acceptable’ and his rehabilitation was tinged with pique


    34. In 2010, after press revelations that he was having an affair, his wife left him and in a fit of pique she told the police of the events seven years earlier


    35. The product is designed to pique the curiosity of toddlers and encourage


    36. One day in a fit of pique I took all of Q"s letters I had saved


    37. Norah could hear the other woman’s interest pique


    38. He shouldn’t have mentioned them—it would only pique her interest


    39. In a fit of pique, he jumped to his feet


    40. The mixture of motorcars and carriages, the ladies beautifully dressed in lace and tulle and light satins and glittering jewelry, and the men in dinner clothes with pique waistcoats and white shirtfronts

    41. That left tea and water, neither of which would pique Pam’s interest


    42. either ask a question, incite fear, or pique your visitor's interest


    43. pique himself, on any virtue at all, it is on his fidelity and


    44. When I shouted it out again and again, in pique, several times, I was beaten so severely, we both ended crying together


    45. Alexandros left soon after finishing the game, unable to conceal his pique at losing so resoundingly


    46. He had no cause to live for or die for except out of pique


    47. They really knew their job well! More out of pique than anything else, I told them in that case I would keep the room for the night


    48. You are lying and slandering from some spite against me, simply from pique, because I did not agree with your free-thinking, godless, social propositions!"


    49. Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks


    50. Ashamed of his momentary pique, Laurie squeezed the kind little hand, and said frankly,
















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    Synonyms for "pique"

    pique irritation temper offend

    "pique" definitions

    tightly woven fabric with raised cords


    a sudden outburst of anger


    cause to feel resentment or indignation