piqued
Americanadjective
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(of interest, curiosity, etc.) excited or aroused.
By the end of the talk the audience had tons of questions, and left with a piqued interest in the world of lion research.
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irritated and resentful, especially because of an injury to one’s pride.
The Act triggered President Truman's piqued reaction: he found the bill "un-American" and vetoed it, but to no avail.
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(of pride, vanity, etc.) wounded.
Unimaginable horrors often result from nothing more than a move to second place, a public embarrassment, or a piqued ego.
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The other acts who went home were Iceland's Diljá, Georgia's Iru, San Marino's Piqued Jacks and Greece's Victor Vernicos who, at 16 years old, was this year's youngest contestant.
From BBC • May 11, 2023
Piqued by the exclusion, he circulates a public letter, in which his resentments are masked by interrogatives and faux naïveté:
From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2017
Piqued, the Americans withdrew an offer to cut tariffs on imported car parts.
From Economist • Oct. 2, 2014
Piqued, perhaps, that while several of his sisters are artists, he "can't draw so much as a straight line", he has for 30 years been assembling a world-class collection of art architecture.
From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2014
Piqued, she had twitted him on his silence.
From What Timmy Did by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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