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

Well, Pretty Patty must have a miff of some sort.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Wells, Carolyn

In a pet; in a passion or miff.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

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.

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