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

He, however, is the victim of all the caprices of the company, from the prima donna, who in a miff kicks about his partition in a very piano cavatina, to each of the bandy-legged choristers.

From Physiology of The Opera by Swaby, John H.

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

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 didn't say it was a miff," protested Pete.

From The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Goldfrap, John Henry