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:

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.
Indicting him was an exercise in prosecutorial pique, doomed to fail.
Jordan, like Greene, is too sensitive to his characters' vexations--to their colorful spasms of 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?
Luckily, I don't have to cancel my subscription to your zine in a fit of pique!