How To Use Peeve In A Sentence
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One of my greatest pet peeves in anime is the glossy disregard for detail in action scenes.
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SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables.
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All four women were kind of peeved by that question.
CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009
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She's peeved, and you're left wondering if she's having a brain lapse or something.
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My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
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One such member was peeved at the way in which computer terminals were lying unused.
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I'm pretty peeved that Savage is chambering the 14 AC and 16's for .250 Savage and .300 Savage in the right hand guns and not the left.
I recently read an article that was basically worshiping the fast "quarter-bore" rifle cartridges.
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In fact, now I'm getting kind of peeved thinking about someone out there who might not know it.
Well, somebody had to say it
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Personally, I am quite peeved about all these rightto lifers, saying 'mistakes happen' when asked about Bristol ... but when Obama said he did not want his daughters to bear the burden, they all screamed ... about a baby not being a burden!
New Movie Quotes Fellow McCain POW Saying McCain Not Fit To Be President
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It peeves me to be ordered out of my own house.
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He wore a slightly peeved expression, a dissected newspaper strewn about his side of the table.
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I'm just telling you to put your peeves in perspective - whether smaller or larger focus.
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I'm also kind of peeved that in the new series they are hinting that he is blind in the right eye.
Jonah Hex Ultimate Spaghetti Makeover!
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I'm sure Jenga would rather have a couple of peeved officers than lose a good man.
MEDALON
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The misuse of the term hypocrite is just a pet peeve of mine.
If you are truly opposed to abortion, why would you have amniocentesis -- as Sarah Palin did -- knowing that it might kill the unborn child?
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I couldn't quite make out whether the doc was peeved because I was back again or genuinely surprised to see me again so soon.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is anti-takeover measures like poison pills and staggered boards that destroy shareholder value.
The Value Of Investing In Virtue And Vice
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Wolf — bad pseudo-medievalism is one of my pet peeves, but that’s an entire other blog post.
First Girl Ever at SF Novelists
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Finally, a pet peeve that I find frequently in poorly edited tutorials: the desire to show off the language by presenting clever tricks or small hacks it can accomplish.
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On the gaming critique front I figure it's best to put one of my biggest gaming peeves in the first edition.
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Some "pet peeves" of mine concerning dress are: bra straps that show. underwear that shows (and this goes for the boys too). tattoos, which make a woman look hard. any kind of facial pierce. clothing that is the wrong size, either too small (making it unattractively clingy) or too large (making it look like a sack).
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
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DJNoNo – 12 Vaulting Hippos (Pendulum vs Gayle Peevey) ebn ozn – rockin robin
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I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile.
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Let your friends know you are genuinely sorry and that you understand why they're peeved.
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I'll have to add one of my big peeves are folks who completely miss that part.
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However, he is peeved at his present posting as the city does not boast of a proper golf club where foreigners are allowed to unwind during weekends.
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This morning a group of so-po bloggers walked with other NGOs and political parties peeved with the 50 so-called nosy Australian lawmakers who wanted Malaysia to stop an on-going trial in the name of justice.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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I guarantee that none of the lessons I've prescribed will take root; I will swear at traffic, get peeved at fellow mortals, drop off to sleep thinking about the petty bedevilments of the coming day.
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They're peeved because a rich American businessman with no knowledge of football has taken over the club.
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He was peeved because we didn't ask him what he thought about the idea.
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grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve
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My peeve of the morning is people treating me like a moron and wasting my time.
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The insurance companies are particularly peeved at the absence of the risk management concept in the revised tariff.
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The test of their leadership's muscularity will be if the coalition can hold together while opposition on both sides of the debate attempt to nibble away at their peeves.
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He sounded flummoxed, flabbergasted and dyspeptically peeved.
American Tabloid
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However, I am slightly peeved at myself as I should've done some of these application forms on Monday.
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She was peeved that I wasn't able, at a moment's notice, to take half an hour to help her dress.
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I leaned over to my friend, already a little angry that the film was falling into place for me, and muttered, "If it turns out that he's dead through this whole thing, I'm gonna be peeved" [OK, I didn't say "peeved," but you get the point].
Archive 2005-10-01
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Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes he second guesses my judgment.
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But here's a pet peeve from the media coverage, where Corporal Megeney is referred to repeatedly as a "reservist". maybe more than once your humble e-scribbler has let that word slip from his own lips or typed them onto a page somewhere.
A soldier, once and always
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Having to go into a discussion about phonetics with nearly every person I meet is my major peeve.
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I sat down to watch it and was somewhat peeved to see that they hadn't included anything about the alternate ending.
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CummyNup was more than a little peeved at this claim, and he challenged her about it.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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We all have peeves but the search for something new can yield far clunkier results.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pretty soon, she was deep into her daydreams and didn't realize the peeved teacher glooming over her desk.
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It peeves me to be ordered out of my own house.
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Comments seelight, i am so glad that you're taxonomizing your language peeves! and i agree with much of what you say, even if it means that i've now re-written this little comment some eight times or howevermany already. but i've got to respond to your post on pithy, which was not so, um, pithy. pithy is a great word, because it specifically means "a maximum of effect from a minimum of words.
Strunk and Light IV: Using it just to use it
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Instead, another layer of inaccuracy via inference: Since Hu's family has caused all this trouble by raising a fuss, peeved officialdom is going to make sure that the old girl is out of here chop-chop.
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So one of my biggest pet peeves is people who waste lab supply money on things you can make yourself for pennies and only a little bit of work.
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My right boob is peeved, but bandaged and recovering well.
No time to say hello, goodbye! « A Bird’s Nest
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Such a policy provoked this complaint from pilot Kenneth E. Booke: One new development that has us all highly peeved, is the fact that they have raised our missions from 25 to 30.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
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One of my pet-peeves is a dirty rifle, and I believe it would break my heart to see my nephew neglect this rifle (or any other).
Commercial Gun Cleaning Kits
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He then asked if any of the readers had any pet hates which they wanted to get off their chests, so he would air their peeves in the column too.
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The orthodox husbands will be peeved, no doubt.
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I'm just peeved the second half is so uninteresting compared to the first.
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No, not discomposed or irritated, not even a touch peeved…
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I was still peeved at myself for doodling hearts all over my paper, even if I was daydreaming.
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Why would she tell you, stupe?" the peeve demanded.
Pet Peeve
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peeved about being left out
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My biggest peeve with the book was a lack of examination of the band's songs.
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The Tories were rather peeved, and the Liberal Democrats not very impressed.
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I have the audacity to believe all my peeves are rational, but will justify naming one of those because there's bound to be someone who thinks otherwise.
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Actually I'm a sore loser and will only be peeved when I don't win.
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I think everybody in town was kind of peeved off," said Stockley, who has been running iceberg excursions since 1985.
The Iceberg Wars
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People were kind of peeved; at that point, we just wanted to get home," said Jackson, who commutes daily on Metro.
Blue Line train misrouted to Orange Line, bewildering riders
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He was peeved because we didn't ask him what he thought about the idea.
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The bowler was so peeved at a misfield at Sunday's game of cricket, that the fielder paid the price then and there.
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Before you have a freak-out over her nail biting, be sure your peeve doesn't have deeper roots.
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When I am double-crossed and outwitted by another competent player, I am somewhat peeved, probably dismayed at the appearance of my crumbling position on the board, and if anything mad at myself for not outguessing my opponent.
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This peeved me because I was few months older than him, though in those days you lied about your age.
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Every commander also has pet peeves, quirks, and peculiarities.
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When I am double-crossed and outwitted by another competent player, I am somewhat peeved, probably dismayed at the appearance of my crumbling position on the board, and if anything mad at myself for not outguessing my opponent.
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Though I spend a fair amount of time in his company, I nurse a particular peeve against him.
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I am occasionally asked to do a talk on the Gothic, and one of my pet peeves is the continual process of making the other safe.
Howard Hughes vs. the Amazon Sales Rank
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Neil was peeved when I refused his request for a prescription for penicillin.
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He obviously wanted tough but achieved the titanically silly -- like your doddy old grandpa grumbling about political pet peeves.
Leonce Gaiter: McCain Was Presidential, Yes -- Nixonian
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She remembered how peeved he was that his waterworks had prevented him from taking up the offer of free golf lessons.
PROSPECT HILL
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I so understand the grammar peeve - "irregardless" is my biggest weakness - but, um, lots of well-educated people use bad grammar.
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Martin's peeve is poorly planned development.
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One of my big pet peeves is that should a movie make an attempt at being historically accurate in clothing, that they tend to veer wildly the more important the character, especially if the character is a woman.
Fashion: How Movies Corrupt History « Colleen Anderson
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Let your friends know you are genuinely sorry and that you understand why they're peeved.
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The reported student's pet peeves were the exit control desks, and ‘the lack of synchrony between library opening hours and circulations service.’
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I was peeved because I'd come back for my morning tea break and was waiting for a gap between showers to get out under a nice dry awning or archway.
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My biggest peeve is when people pick on those they know (or think) are weaker than them.
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He wasn't sure whether to be thankful or outraged, but upon glimpsing the stranger's not uncomely face, Arron settled upon merely peeved.
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Even if your peeve is petty, it can still be seriously irritating.
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One peeve of mine is these so called reality shows.
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This is far from the only extensible platform out there and everybody has their personal pet peeves with the code base.
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If she saw the film without you, don't take it out on her by nit-picking over peeves you never even noticed before.
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So when two cyclists - one of my other pet peeves - cut him off by riding two abreast, I kindly offered to open the passenger door and clean them up for him.
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Staff announcement, staff announcement," calls a peeved voice on the PA.
Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 1 July
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Pet peeve: The word nipple was used far too often!
Review: Mistik Lake
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I would probably be kind of peeved if my flight was a casualty of that prank!
Balloon Boy Lives! Pass the popcorn | EW.com
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This is more of a personal peeve, but I find it really annoying when characters in fight scenes yell during the final attack.
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In general, I found the Crafty Chica book fairly amenable to the use of recycled materials, and not too reliant on non-natural materials like fusible interfacing, which is nice my pet peeve is how so many projects that incorporate T-shirts instruct the usage of fusible interfacing.
Crafty Green Book Review: Crafty Chica’s Guide to Artful Sewing
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The title touched on one of my pet peeves: the equation of 'baseball' with 'major league 'baseball'.
Languagehat.com: THE END OF BASEBALL IN FRENCH.
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One of MY pet peeves is the misuse of statistical tidbits, often incomplete, out of context, and/or inaccurate when one examines them, which then gets people believing things that just are not true.
Wonk Room » Elizabeth Edwards: $1 Of Every $700 Went To Pay Salary Of UnitedHealth CEO
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Such statements come from hawkish traditionalists peeved that they didn't get the all-out war they wanted.
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As a long-time user of the IBM Rational Rose tool, my pet peeve with the tool has always been its usability.
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One of my pet peeves is that people confuse "professional" with "expert".
Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia
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If a houseguest decided to get themselves a midnight snack without my permission, it is not at all unlikely that I would be mightily peeved.
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David's side of the family has been neglected, which has not gone unnoticed by his peeved parents.
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My peeve is with group blogs that put the writer's name at the end of items.
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I was peeved by her reaction, that she would be embarrassed, instead of being proud of me.
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One of my pet peeves is when a judge isn't paying attention.
Judge To Other Judges: Shut Up And Listen
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While I am seriously peeved over what happened, I can't help but feel sorry for people like him.
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One peeve: dealing with what he calls "airline nonsense"—long lines, rising fees and canceled flights.
A Tax Man Takes Account Of His Life
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If corruption is his peeve, then it is time to close in on the innumerable private colleges across the country that charge students much much more and provide them with worthless degrees at the end of it all.
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Yolanda often reminded people that Kayleigh's biggest peeve was to be interrupted while working, and Kayleigh took her peeves seriously.
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U.S. and European drugs and pharmaceutical companies are reported to be peeved at this.
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One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing people - whether they're on foot, on a bike, in a car, or in a horse and buggy - who sleepwalk their way through life without any awareness of their effect on other people.
Tragic Death on Cedar River Trail « PubliCola
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He was still peeved at Roger's actions, but would forgive him if everything turned out well in the end.
