Pique

President Theodore Roosevelt, who in a fit of pique coined the term ‘muckraking’, called him a potent influence for evil.

But our little dialogue is supposed to pique people’s interest.

It is the tax relief measures, however, that would most pique the interest of the public.

They left two-weeks ago after selling their house in a fit of pique over the fact that their grandchildren were not welcome in the complex’s communal backyard.

Event planners aim to give those varied interests plenty to pique their partiality.

That way, when you’ve done the deed, your spurned lover can’t burn your stuff in a fit of pique .

It was then that in a fit of pique , the deputy smoked three cigarettes in the bar as a ‘protest’.

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Some have accused Stoiber of deliberately trying to sabotage Merkel in a fit of pique at her rapid rise.

Last night, in a fit of pique , just to show me up for a liar, she took her first steps with the cane.

What exasperated driver hasn’t wanted to scream at the person in the passenger seat and snatch the map in a fit of pique ?

Keel killed the pay-raise bill with a last-minute point of order in a fit of pique .

The other guys will notice how much those guys enjoy your company – it might pique their interest.

So I think senior colleagues made the wrong decision – but I can’t say they made the decision in a fit ofpique or envy.

Hopefully with the press we’ll pique some people’s interest and they’ll come see what it’s all about.

She abused passengers and crew then stripped off in a fit of pique .

Are Europeans going on a buyer’s strike in a fit of pique over Iraq?

They have invested too much in this season to throw it away in a fit of pique .

Better, I suppose, that I flame on about flaming out, rather than just quit in a fit of pique after biting my tongue bloody for a month.

To leave now would suggest that he’d gone in a fit of pique .

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Of course it didn’t happen and I went out in a fit of pique in the next hand.

Even those with only a passing interest in the subject matter should find something to pique their curiosity within.

Certainly in France it was an educated decision: it was not one taken in a fit of pique or absent-mindedness.

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That’s worse than having him blurt out some threats in a fit of pique , he actually thought he could bring New Europe to heel.

Speaking at a Belfast news conference, Mr Ervine denied that his party had left the talks in a fit ofpique .

The president, apparently in a fit of pique , in October abruptly postpones a long-planned summit with Britain.

She says yes, and adds ‘I suppose when my scientific curiosity is piqued , I lose all fear.’