miff

Example Sentences

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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

Mary took a miff one Sunday, And so I put on the "blue."

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

I don't doubt it: you resemble Achilles, when he and Agamemnon had their miff.

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten

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.