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having the power to affect the feelings or sympathies
- a poignant story of a love affair that ends in tragedy
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sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses
- a poignant truthfulness to the author's observations
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pungent, piquant, poignant, racy mean sharp and stimulating to the mind or the senses. pungent implies a sharp, stinging, or biting quality especially of odors.
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- a cheese with a pungent odor
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- a piquant sauce
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- felt a poignant sense of loss
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- spontaneous, racy prose
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