How to Use miff in a Sentence

miff

verb
  • Someone will be miffed to miss out.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Trump is still pretty miffed, though.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • His staff gave the brussels-sprout fact a standing ovation if only to miff the host.
    — Vulture, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But some pancakes-and-eggs fans may be miffed over the latest concoctions.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
  • If Ford feels miffed by them lumping the company in with the others, tough.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, The Courier-Journal, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Kiffin was arrogantly miffed, but Carter was so right.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
  • On social media, the speaker gave no hints that he was miffed by the students who refused to be photographed with him.
    — Peter Jamison, ajc, 28 May 2017
  • Larson was clearly still miffed that the senator had offered him only eighty dollars for it.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The raid miffed American officials as well.
    — Tom Nagorski, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Marie is understandably miffed.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
  • Though Rick is at first miffed at sharing the spotlight with a scene-stealing superstar, the two end up hitting it off.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 May 2026
  • The Jazz had opened up a double-digit lead in the second half, and Ball Arena was miffed.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
  • This wasn’t the first time this season that Bednar or his players were miffed at the results of an official review.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Developers are miffed by the delay, Burton said.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • The word then was that Foles was miffed by Jones’ comments and refused to consider the Cowboys.
    — Clarence E. Hill Jr., star-telegram, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Jackson was measured in his postgame comments, clearly miffed that the Ravens didn’t do more offensively.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Coach Buzz Williams was still miffed with the selection committee, the process and the whole lack of transparency.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Meet the famous Alaskan husky—and Iditarod finisher—who got miffed at a musher and chomped her truck’s brake lines.
    — Morgan Carter, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Meet the famous Alaskan husky—and Iditarod finisher—who got miffed at a musher and chomped her truck’s brake lines.
    — Morgan Carter, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Jaylen Brown was justifiably miffed over the NBA’s latest round of monthly awards.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Or residents get miffed by higher water bills – water districts still have to pay for all their pipes and plants even if people are using less – and start wasting water again.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2017
  • The players actually filling clubhouses will continue to be miffed at the reasons.
    — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Police tracked her down at a hospital and made an arrest there, which miffed Kiakos's lawyer, Michael Weinstein.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 July 2017
  • Meanwhile, many employees at OpenAI were miffed by the decision.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The grumbling of thousands of uprooted officials will add to that of bigwigs miffed by Mr Cai’s queue-jumping career.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • When the Ethiopian monks woke up last Easter season to find an Egyptian flag painted across the courtyard door, they were miffed but not surprised.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Owens was inducted into the Hall, but won’t be attending the ceremony, which has miffed the game’s establishment.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • Crosby seems to be open to mending fences with the Raiders after the team hired Klint Kubiak as coach, but the front office that left him miffed last year remains in place.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Doncic was already miffed after receiving a technical in the first quarter after officials didn’t call a foul on Brooks during his drive to the basket.
    — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The entire situation miffed Joe, which culminated in a match at Double or Nothing.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026

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