peeve

Tell us the word or phrase and why it’s your pet peeve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

“It’s a pet peeve with many people,” he told me.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

"It was something that, at first, would always really excite me, but has become increasingly something of a pet peeve," said bookseller and fantasy blogger Bethan Hindmarch, from Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025

We know every secret, private joke and pet peeve about each other , based on memories woven so deeply into the L.A. backdrop, they can’t be undone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

I can’t be late; her number-one peeve is tardiness.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

For years, Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, has been laying into one of his personal peeves, the health care system.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

Here’s a look at the couple’s breakups, makeups, parenting, advocating and peeves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Instead of getting to know each other, becoming familiar with likes and dislikes, ticklish spots, pet peeves, Desdemona and Lefty tried to defamiliarize themselves with each other.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Apple’s AI missteps, including a botched rollout of a smarter version of the Siri voice assistant, peeved investors last year.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

I loved the scene in which Arthur fires off a peeved response to a hater in his comments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

Recalls a peeved Mr. Blankfein: “It was like the undertaker calling at your sickbed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

“I didn’t come here to play games, and that’s kind of what this is feeling like to me,” says one peeved competitor on this romance game show, “And it’s a little disappointing.”

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025

“I doubt it,” he said back, which got me a little peeved, but at least he was looking straight at me now and all of his shame was gone.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013

Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011

I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was exulting in the thought that he must be peeving Amanda.

From Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites by Myers, Anna Balmer