miffed

past tense of miff

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for miffed
Verb
  • Everyone Lee comes into contact with is at minimum annoyed with him most of the time, if not outright hating him.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Keanu, still annoyed from the veto ceremony, talked to Ava Pearl in the HOH room and called Rachel a liar.
    David Wysong, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This isn’t the first time that Harry was allegedly peeved because of Meghan’s Netflix show.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … DEMANDING ANSWERS – Top Democrats peeved over $8B Paramount-Skydance merger, citing Trump influence.
    , FOXNews.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Think flying in spring water to a Caribbean island because a female client thought the local water irritated her scalp.
    Louis J. Esterhazy, Footwear News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • On television, the film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert structured their show so that at any time at least one of them was likely to be exasperated, possibly with the other one.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Even Yankee great Paul O’Neill, who was on the YES broadcast, was exasperated by Volpe’s decision.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Climate scientists have long been vexed by the disconnect between the dire warnings blared by their models and the restrained policies enacted by world leaders.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • My suggestions are fraught with political landmines that have vexed commissioners dating back to Bowie Kuhn, when the MLBPA gained a hold in the 1960s.
    Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Others were offended by the variety of items in the dish.
    Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His criminal history includes convictions for felony grand larceny, felony aggravated DUI with a child passenger less than 16 years old, identify theft, and retail theft.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson missed a month because of a toe injury in preseason, then re-aggravated it in the opening loss against the Colts.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In practice, that could mean a withdrawal of political cover for Israel's ongoing invasion of Gaza, which has provoked outrage among European and Arab nations as famine conditions spread.
    Gram Slattery, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The moves provoked legal challenges over First Amendment rights.
    Dan Gooding Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Miffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miffed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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