piquant in the PONS Dictionary

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The many piquant details her stories contain give her characters and the movies in which they appear a solid foothold in reality.
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These included a great range of heat intensity depending on the amount of capsaicin present, with some being mild and others being very piquant.
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Reported have a taste akin to orange, the berries are pleasantly piquant and aromatically flavored, being used in preserves.
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The thinly sliced beef has been stir-fried in a cornstarch-thickened slurry that's more sweet than piquant.
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There was something about her expression that was very piquant, he later said.
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All of it made more piquant by the marketing and hyping abilities of some and the inability to do that by others.
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It is described as a piquant mix of sweetness and heat.
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Gibbon's work has been praised for its style, his piquant epigrams and its effective irony.
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The central idea is stated by the orchestra in a hesitant, piquant gavotte.
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Invariably, it is red (bright red to ruddy-orange) and is usually very piquant.
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