The tract also admitted that 'there are churches that ought never to have come into existence, churches of dispute and personal pique or eccentricity'.

I was wrong to place personal pique above general policy and I apologize.

"There was personal pique by some elements who preferred the mutant order," he announced.

"This may go a long way in expressing our personal pique but I think in the long run it's destructive."

"The Democrats will have taken an action which will really harm some people simply out of what amounts to personal pique," Mr. Gregg said.

The Council was motivated in part by personal pique.

In the case of James R. Lyons, they seem to reflect personal pique.

Some lawmakers worried about imagined dangers to police, jurors, complaining witnesses and families; others acted out of personal pique at the pesky media.

Part of it was apparently personal pique.

It's hard to believe this Vermonter made a decision of great national import driven by personal pique at some White House slight.