All 3 Uses of
pique
in
Crime and Punishment
- "You may both be mistaken about Rodya," Pulcheria Alexandrovna remarked, slightly piqued.†
Chpt 3.2 *
- "I am compelled to keep a business engagement, and so I shall not be in your way," he added with an air of some pique and he began getting up.†
Chpt 4.2
- 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!†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
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(pique as in: in a pique about it) a feeling of resentment or indignation; or to excite such a feeling