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Meanings of more piquant in English

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Usage of more piquant in English
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The French olives are more piquant in flavour than the larger kind.
The Art of Living in Australia / Together with Three Hundred Aus...
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Amaze your curiosity with that, while waiting for some revelation more piquant.
Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03
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All the more piquant then to startle him out of his insolent security.
A Hungarian Nabob
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It is a more piquant climax, perhaps not admissible to the Chopin purist.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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I never imagined that good could be more interesting, more piquant than vice.
The Brotherhood of Consolation
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They put the umami in miso and make pickles more piquant.
Wired
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Is there any thing on earth more piquant than a truffle-pie?
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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Indeed, was it not rather more piquant than otherwise?
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Attack is more piquant than concord.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Her tongue was sharper than her needle, and her pickles were not more piquant than her sarcastic wit.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
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He seems to like best material that is a little refractory; it makes his page more piquant and stimulating.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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It is something like being under fire,- asortof excitement, not exactly pleasure, but more piquant than most pleasures.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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A thousand different topics were started, and dismissed only to give way to fresh subjects more piquant than the preceding.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
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It was the last thing he had expected to see, but it was infinitely more piquant, more intoxicating, than desperation.
Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
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It was not unbecoming, though, and lent her, somehow, a spiritual look which made her impudence all the more piquant.
One Basket
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