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piquantly

ADVERB
  1. with strong spices; in a spicy manner
    the soup was spicily flavored

How To Use piquantly In A Sentence

  • Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.
  • They brought back piquantly appropriate or delusive answers, piquant enough to condemn the stories.
  • It's a timeless conceit, but in "The Rules of Civility," Amor Towles sets it convincingly in a late-1930s milieu where the limousines and cocktail parties of the haut monde contrast piquantly with the wider context of the Great Depression. The Best Fiction of 2011
  • Or to put the point more piquantly, one person's minuteman is another person's mujahideen. Balkinization
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