peeved; peeving
1
: a feeling or mood of resentment
2
: a particular grievance or source of aggravation
Examples of peeve in a Sentence
Verb
she is constantly peeved by his habit of humming show tunes while she is trying to focus on her work
Noun
One of her peeves is people who are always late.
my main peeve with the animal welfare organization is the endless stream of unsolicited trinkets in my mailbox
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Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
So, to sum things up: A player peeved about a lack of playing time actively turned down playing time, leading to the team denying him playing time.
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2024
Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
It’s further reported that according to an unnamed OpenAI executive — which really peeves CEOs — that the new large language model is 100 times more powerful than GPT-4 and is likely to be combined with other LLMs such as 01, which launched in September.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Verb
Billionaire tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai of Google, Tim Cook of Apple, and Elon Musk got prime seats at President Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol rotunda — peeving lawmakers in both parties.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 20 Jan. 2025
So, to sum things up: A player peeved about a lack of playing time actively turned down playing time, leading to the team denying him playing time.
—Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
Trump’s taunts and global peeves aired during a stream-of-consciousness news conference included criticism of President Biden for ordering an offshore oil drilling ban along most U.S. coastlines two weeks before his successor’s Inauguration.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 8 Jan. 2025
It’s further reported that according to an unnamed OpenAI executive — which really peeves CEOs — that the new large language model is 100 times more powerful than GPT-4 and is likely to be combined with other LLMs such as 01, which launched in September.
—Tor Constantino, Mba, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Peeve.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peeve. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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