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
But he soon came back, in a great miff, and offered to sell the whole of his fine new outfit for just one half what it cost him.
From Gaut Gurley by Thompson, D. P.
He may take a miff at any of us any time.
From Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student by Kilburn
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
Well, Pretty Patty must have a miff of some sort.
From Patty's Butterfly Days by Wells, Carolyn
Vocabulary lists containing miff
The Sound and the Fury: Synonyms for "Anger"
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