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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A feeling of enmity between two entities; ill-feeling, animosity; a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
- A chigger or jigger, Tunga penetrans.
- A durable ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
- A feeling of irritation or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little thought or consideration.
- (obsolete) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
Verbit
- (transitive) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to excite to anger.
- (reflexive) To take pride in; to pride oneself on.
- (transitive) To excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting.
Esimerkit
- Men take up piques and displeasures.
- Wars had arisen [...] upon a personal pique.
- This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle.
- You think this is a personal thing with me? Are you telling me I think of this in terms of a personal pique?
- Though it have the pique, and long, / 'Tis still for something in the wrong.
- She treated him indulgently, as if he were a child. He thought he did not mind. But deep below the surface it piqued him.
- Pique her and soothe in turn.
- Men [...] pique themselves upon their skill.
- I believe this will pique your interest.
- He greeted me coldly with merely a movement of the head and passed on, leaving me standing on the walk, with half-proffered hand, surprised and naturally somewhat piqued.
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