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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
miffed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tess was a little miffed that Sean didn't bother to call her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bank customers are notoriously slow to shift their business, even if they are miffed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
miffed

1824, past participle adjective from miff (v.). Sir Walter Scott calls it "a women's phrase."

Wiktionary
miffed
  1. (context informal English) irritated, angry, put out or annoyed. v

  2. (en-past of: miff)

WordNet
miffed

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, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stunng]

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Miffed

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Usage examples of "miffed".

Rhyssa sat bolt upright again, startled and somewhat miffed that she had been left in the dark--and by Dorotea!

A few skeletal, filthy humans miffed about within the highfenced enclosures, crowding toward a long wooden table set up on muddy ground.