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piqued
adjective
uk /piːkt/ us /piːkt/
slightly angry, especially because someone has damaged your feeling of being proud of yourself: 不满的
The scientists were piqued because science and hard work made their colleague wealthy.对于他们的同事靠着（他们的）科学发明和勤劳而致富了，这些科学家们有点不满。
She felt piqued at being excluded from the meeting.她由于被排除在这次会议之外而感到不满。
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Jenny is piqued, sometimes, by the attention Philip pays to me.
It's entirely understandable if you feel piqued.
I had let her come because I was piqued with my daughters, but I was stuck in the kitchen with her.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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acridly
acrimonious
acrimoniously
aggrieved
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exasperatedly
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fed up to the back teethidiom
fired up
fit to be tiedidiom
murder
not be a happy camperidiom
outraged
peeved
pissed off
venomous
warpath
wound up
wrathful
wrathfully
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