miff

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But then he’ll dig out a joke and do something that might hurt his business — and miff his investors — because, well, he thinks that something is the right thing to do.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2012

In a pet; in a passion or miff.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

"Been fishing lately?" he asked easily, as though he had not left her that day in a miff.

From Her Prairie Knight by Bower, B. M.

The Hessians are disgusted, and their General De Heister gone home in a miff.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

An' then if he should have a whiff In there, 'twould only breed a miff: He cānt smoke there, vor smoke woon't goo 'Ithin the footy little flue.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William