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Definition

having an agreeably pungent or spicy taste

or:

engagingly stimulating or provocative

It is a hard cheese with piquant taste and rich flavor.

She has a piquant wit.
They may be piquant enough at times.
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler
He found a certain piquancy in the reflection that neither Cortot nor Pachmann had been so fortunate.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
'May you do well,' said the guide with her piquant smile.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm—much of what has been since seen in "Hernani."
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Masque of the Red Death
Besides, here is a piquant FRICANDEAU and a fillet of beef.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
The Little Theaters, which were to give piquancy to American drama three or four years later, were only in embryo.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Clyde noted that a small, dark girl dressed in pink with a pretty and yet saucy and piquant face, nodded to him.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
'That's just what gives it piquancy.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
She had a round, sly, piquant face and pretty black eyes.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
So Liddy's idea was at first rather harassing than piquant.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
Rebecca used to mimic her to her face with the most admirable gravity, thereby rendering the imitation doubly piquant to her worthy patroness.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
"Ah, you should see me Sundays!" she said piquantly.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
There was something so piquant and original in these elucidations of humanity, that Mr. Shelby could not help laughing in company.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
What gave the marriage piquancy was that it was preceded by an elopement, and this greatly captivated Adelaida Ivanovna's fancy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
They were pretty in the main, some even handsome, with an air of independence and indifference which added, in the case of the more favored, a certain piquancy.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie

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