piqued
Example Sentences
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The other acts who went home were Iceland's Diljá, Georgia's Iru, San Marino's Piqued Jacks and Greece's Victor Vernicos who, at 16 years old, was this year's youngest contestant.
From BBC • May 11, 2023
Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:
From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2017
Piqued by Mr Cameron’s barbs, the popular mayor is now throwing his full weight behind the Out campaign.
From Economist • Mar. 3, 2016
Piqued, perhaps, that while several of his sisters are artists, he "can't draw so much as a straight line", he has for 30 years been assembling a world-class collection of art architecture.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2014
Piqued by the uneventfulness of the preceding day, May Tomalin stole forth this morning in a decidedly adventurous frame of mind.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
