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Word entry · 8 letters

piquancy

Best crossword clue

"Pleasant sharpness"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted acinpquyStarts with PEnds with Y1 clues
1P2I3Q4U5A6N7C8Y

Definitions

  1. the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting

Word origin

From piquant + -cy.

Used in a sentence

  • At fifteen, her poetry of feeling (you see I do my best to please you with a phrase) would just give piquancy and freshness to her entry into life; but at twenty,...
  • There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve.

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