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• s  having an agreeably pungent taste
• s  engagingly stimulating or provocative
  a piquant wit
• s  attracting or delighting
  a piquant face with large appealing eyes

• Essential reading: McCain adviser Mark Salter lays into Obama in spicysaltypiquant memo.
• Around Thriller's time, Jackson's weirdness was startling, peripheral, piquant.
• In Bombay's movie fanpaper, Film-India, Editor Baburao Patel conducts an unusually piquant question--answer department.

• savory
• savoury
• spicy
• zesty
• salty
• engaging

News & Articles

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• Independent coffee houses offering tastings – aka ‘cuppings’ - Sun, 23 Jun 2013 PST
  There’s no sipping at a coffee cupping. When it comes to detecting in detail the aromas and tastes of a specialty brew – distinguishing the piquant from the nippy, the cucumber from the garden peas – it’s all about the slurp.
  June 23, 2013 - The Spokesman-Review

Quotes

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• BN Srikrishna in Hindu
  Justice Srikrishna said: "My view, albeit prima facie, is that the soft-pedalling policy followed by the Madras High Court judges has led to the present piquant situations. The lawyers appear to have been encouraged by the wrong signals sent out and...
• Frank Rich in The National
  In The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote: "Of all the coverage of Obama's victory, the most accurate take may still be the piquant morning-after summation of the satirical newspaper The Onion. Under the headline 'Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job,'...
• Erich Segal in Media Matters for America
  Al attributed it to the newspaper, he talked about the newspaper,Mr. Segal said at another point in the interview. "They conveniently omitted that part. Time thought it was more piquant to leave that out. He was talking on the plane off...