Words similar to pique

Example sentences for: pique

How can you use “pique” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Luckily, I don't have to cancel my subscription to your zine in a fit of pique!
Indicting him was an exercise in prosecutorial pique, doomed to fail.
An editorial in Thursday's Japan Times speculates that "pique seems to have figured prominently" in the selection this weekend of Turin, Italy, as the site of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games.
So why is he timeless, while Self's sendups of PC already seem dated, as if he'd jotted them down in a fit of childish pique in 1991?
Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of pique.