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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
peeved
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Murray is peeved that the club did not offer him a new contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A moment later the beautiful young man from Gasset and Lode came out, looking peeved.
▪ As the bedroom door closed, Googol adopted a peeved expression and pretended great interest in a fingernail.
▪ Geoffrey was peeved she spent so much time in Meredith's company.
▪ He was obviously peeved that we'd squared it with the music teacher while he didn't know anything about it.
▪ I dare say a few prize juries might be peeved at having their judgment queried, too.
▪ I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile.
▪ In any case, Ned's a bit peeved so you'd better go in and see him.
▪ It both peeved and amused me.
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peeved

vb. (en-past of: peeve)

WordNet
peeved

adj. aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay" [syn: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stunng]

Usage examples of "peeved".

And the latter is really the malice that Epicurus aimed at Plato: he was peeved by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene at which Plato and his disciples were so expert - at which Epicurus was not an expert - he, that old schoolmaster from Samos who sat, hidden away, in his little garden at Athens and wrote three hundred books - who knows?

As you may have noted from followin' whatevertype of media is in vogue where you're readin'this, when someone of Don Bruce's level in theMob gets peeved, it is not usually expressed by anangry memo.

Zack muttered, peeved at the prospect of ending his workday soaking wet.