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:

Indicting him was an exercise in prosecutorial pique, doomed to fail.
TIMOTHY: What, you mean the Manchester United ace given to contretemps with footballing authorities and fits of Gallic pique?
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?
They later rebuilt it to bolster their own prestige, only to burn it down once again in a fit of pique when the Meiji Restoration of imperial power abolished their shogunate in 1868.
Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of pique.