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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "piquancy" in a sentence

    piquancy example sentences

    piquancy


    1. piquancy to my whole plan


    2. He had quitted the party early, and would have thought it altogether tedious but for the novelty of certain introductions, especially the introduction to Miss Brooke, whose youthful bloom, with her approaching marriage to that faded scholar, and her interest in matters socially useful, gave her the piquancy of an unusual combination


    3. Still some novelty was necessary, to give to their return the piquancy with which I wished it to be invested


    4. But Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was among them, sprang forward and declared that it was by no means impossible, and that, indeed, there was a certain piquancy about it, and so on


    5. Had not my mind been so full of Polina, I should have given myself up to the comical piquancy of the impending denouement, and laughed my fill at it


    6. That sauce was made up of contradictions and sufferings, of agonizing inward analysis and all these pangs and pin-pricks gave a certain piquancy, even a significance to my dissipation—in fact, completely answered the purpose of an appetizing sauce


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    Synonyms for "piquancy"

    piquance piquancy piquantness nip tang tanginess zest

    "piquancy" definitions

    a tart spicy quality


    the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting