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:

Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of pique.
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.
TIMOTHY: What, you mean the Manchester United ace given to contretemps with footballing authorities and fits of Gallic pique?
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.