piquant
The soup was piquantly flavoured.
piquantly sauced meat
This is a piquantly tangy curry with tender beef, potatoes, and whole peanuts.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flavours - spicy
capsaicin
fierily
fiery
ghost pepper
gingery
heat index
hot
mild
mildness
peppery
piquancy
piquant
spicily
spiciness
spicy
superhot
ultra-hot

Examples of piquantly

piquantly
Really, she was most prepossessing, lively in her movements, her eyes burning, her mouth plastic and piquantly inquiring.
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It was beautiful, and might suggest to architects in these threadbare days ideas of a style piquantly original and refreshing.
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He said so, bluntly, piquantly, in half a dozen memorable words, fetching yawn for period.
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She reveals herself almost as piquantly in moods.
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And her lips were anything but haughty; they were a deep red and piquantly upturned at the corners.
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There was something piquantly mysterious about the man--who called himself an adventurer.
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Her nose wrinkled piquantly, her lips fell into beguiling curves.
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These, the only offspring of the iniquitous dame, were piquantly dressed in the journals for public parade.
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Her lips, still piquantly strange, were offering themselves.
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It is chocolate-color and sharp, piquantly pleasant when hard and dry.
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Those brown eyes assorted piquantly with his very fair hair.
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In such a forced union of the ideal and the conventional we are, of course, all the more piquantly reminded of their essential contrast.
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The idea was delightfully novel; the girl beautifully audacious; the situation piquantly amusing.
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And she was piquantly desirable: in part because men sought her without success.
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