adverb
See piquant
‘In this well-written, lively, evocative memoir, she has produced a work that is as piquantly entertaining as her rasam recipe.’
- ‘Sillito and the Academy give the agile and melting Petri excellent support, and while the engineering is warm, it allows the piquantly penetrating characters of the recorders to come through.’
- ‘What piquantly captured the imagination of each, from competitor to consumer-to straw boss to newly outsourced consultant, was how all-inclusive the bench warrant was.’
- ‘Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.’
- ‘They brought back piquantly appropriate or delusive answers, piquant enough to condemn the stories.’
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