miffed

verb

Definition of miffednext
past tense of miff
as in annoyed

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  1. annoyed
  2. exasperated
  3. vexed
  4. aggravated
  5. provoked
  6. ruffled
Verb
  • Or annoyed at the waste of time and money?
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Not all residents are annoyed by their plucky neighbors’ antics, though.
    Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of annoyed
Verb
  • With none of the interviews resulting in a confession, there was still no arrest — something that exasperated the Lamesch family.
    Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Production slumps have been exasperated by striking workers who are demanding pay raises and reached an impasse with the aerospace company this week.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of exasperated
Verb
  • Those obstacles, which vexed Harris and her predecessors, are part of the same curse that could shape the future presidential prospects of Vice President-elect JD Vance.
    Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
  • This, in turn, caused people to desert the label in droves, furious that a streaming service had the power to dictate who got popular or vexed that new artists making emo rap and other genre-fusions were included.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of vexed
Verb
  • The revelations only aggravated the instability of the Barnier government, built on the wobbliest base of any since the start of the Fifth Republic.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • According to SiriusXM, many of the statistics cited in the attorney general’s lawsuit were exaggerated and, based on the 2020 time period that the state investigated, aggravated by the effects of the COVID pandemic.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of aggravated
Verb
  • Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide Monday in the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely on a Manhattan F train — bringing closure in the polarizing case that provoked heated debates about vigilantism, mental illness and subway safety.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In response, the culture minister lately provoked criticism, most notably from Church leaders, by suggesting tourists pay an entrance fee to the cathedral that would go toward fixing other religious sites.
    Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of provoked
Verb
  • Zimmerman's 9-year-old son Grant and other young trainers made sure their feathers wouldn't be ruffled by the spotlight.
    Molly Nagle, ABC News, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The decision to go with a site across the bay, rather than at stadiums in Clearwater or Dunedin, ruffled some Pinellas County feathers.
    Kathryn Varn, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of ruffled
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