piquant

The more piquant your vinegar, the more oil you’ll need to counter it, but go by what tastes good to you.

Even grandmother laid claim to her, for she was delighted with her piquant description of places and people.

Cherry opened her portfolio, and showed two or three water-coloured drawings of the graceful little head and piquant features.

It was plain that the girl was finding a piquant relish in the affair.

Under some piquant provocation, too; for Poppy had just informed him, that she "didn't fancy his business."

The stories are fresh and piquant, and printed in good large type.

There is something quite irresistible in his impertinence; 'tis so conscious and so piquant.

Madame Colleville was a Parisian, piquant, winning and pretty, as well as clever and ethereal.

How much this was would be wholly dependent upon the piquant elements introduced into the story by Mrs. Cholmondeley.

And this innocent intrigue gave a piquant flavour to his otherwise dull life.