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
An' then if he should have a whiff In there, 'twould only breed a miff: He cānt smoke there, vor smoke woon't goo 'Ithin the footy little flue.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
Well, to cut a long story short, by-long and by-late, John Wildway and I had a miff and parted; and lo and behold, the coming man came!
From Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school by Hardy, Thomas
Well, well, don't get into a miff about a trifle now.
From The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans by Townsend, Mary Ashley
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.
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