Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: piqued
IPA transcription: [p'ikt]
Usage examples
  • And Grant, having begun to feel piqued, made no further advances.
  • The Little Doctor, puzzled as well as piqued, went straight to the point.
  • "You won't SEE Stonehenge every day, young man," said the custodian, a little piqued.
  • There was an air of mystery about this that piqued my languid curiosity, and I determined to attempt the passage of that strait, and to explore the unknown regions beyond.
  • The mountain-weight of material under which the ideas lay in those dusty volumes called the classics piqued him into a dogged, mouselike subtlety of attempt to move it piecemeal.
  • Although dazed and baffled, Cassandra betrayed no sign of the tumult within, and the little old man stood before her hesitating, his curiosity piqued into a determination to discover her business and identity.