peeve

Example Sentences

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When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's

When I asked El-Erian about the Fed, I was gratified to hear him address one of my pet peeves: the dim-bulb types who proudly declare themselves to be data-dependent, full stop.

From Barron's

I don’t know if that’s a pet peeve, it’s a genuine fear.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I didn’t come here to play games, and that’s kind of what this is feeling like to me,” says one peeved competitor on this romance game show, “And it’s a little disappointing.”

From Salon

I went to Italy for the first time two years ago and learned that one of their pet peeves is how we say “pistachio.”

From Los Angeles Times