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(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

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pique

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/piːk/

Noun

uncountable countable obsolete

(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

Japanese Meaning

敵意、憤り。相手に対して感じる負の感情を表す。 / 論争、争い。意見の対立や口論といった紛争状態を表す。

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Despite their professional partnership, lingering pique between the two undermined their collaboration.

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職業上のパートナー関係にもかかわらず、両者の間に残るわだかまりが協力を妨げていた。

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Sense（1）

(uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.

Men take up piques and diſpleaſures at others, and then every opinion of the diſliked perſon muſt partake of his fate, and be engaged in the quarrel: […]

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Sense（2）

(uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.

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Sense（3）

(countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.

Add long preſcription of eſtabliſh'd laws, / And picque of honour to maintain a cauſe, / And ſhame of change, and fear of future ill, / And Zeal, the blind conductor of the will; […]

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