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.
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.
Luckily, I don't have to cancel my subscription to your zine in a fit of pique!
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.