(1) Did it originate with the pet peeve of a self-anointed maven?
(2) With a Tory leadership campaign looming, who wants to get on the wrong side of a man whose pet peeves can be on the front page of the Times and the Sun every day?
(3) The Guardian view on Sir Michael Wilshaw: ruffling the right feathers | Editorial Read more His reliance on personal anecdotes over facts has also led to him focusing on pet peeves.
(4) But despite taking the major honours of the evening the singer was cut off in her moment of glory and looked peeved as host Corden interrupted her to make way for Blur because the televised show was running out of time.
(5) Paul Ince was too peeved to celebrate and demanded a post-match meeting with the referee.
(6) Great drama lives in the vacuum between the lines – the space we fill with our experiences, likes and pet peeves.
(7) Sam Allardyce was peeved as he felt Noble had nicked the ball.
(8) Bulk collection of phone and internet records raises a slew of constitutional questions, all of which are pet peeves for the libertarian-leaning Paul.
(9) Two years on, his mother will obviously be mildly peeved: Al Bernameg is no stranger to innuendo where the material allows, and Islam is not a taboo.
(10) What follow are 10 common issues of grammar selected from those that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns and irate letters to the editor.
(11) "I had more followers than her," Gardiner notes, slightly peeved, before conceding: "I don't know, she was probably right."
(12) "I was really peeved that everyone had taken issue with the fact that I think I'm attractive rather than engaging with the debate.
(13) One serious peeve is loud music, and especially those places that won't turn it off, or down, even when your group are the only customers.
(14) Big companies have a fail-safe weapon when they are peeved with customers and that is to go to ground, which E.ON did successfully for two months until I winkled them out via the press office.
(15) Nationals leader Warren Truss said the US president, Barack Obama, had been “peeved” that he hadn’t been able to win a free trade agreement with China like Australia had.
(16) "I only had a day or two of dance lessons," says Aaron, sounding a little peeved.
(17) As long as we don’t peeve our customers coming in for a pint or a meal and slow up service then I think we can do it.” He said the takeaway offer would probably be extended to more drinks at first, rather than food.
(18) "They are all pretty peeved about it – hardly urgent police work."
(19) When some people are not pulling their weight, for example, isn't it quite right and proper to get more than a little peeved?
(20) As for Ed Miliband, he'll doubtless carry on seeking an inquiry into "the culture of banking" with the same manner he always affects when discussing capitalist crisis: looking like a faintly peeved vicar who has just leafed through the Financial Times and discovered that Bad Things are happening in the cosmos.
Tease
Definition:
(v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.
(v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
(v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
(v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
(n.) One who teases or plagues.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(2) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(3) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(4) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
(5) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
(6) When the behavior of the nontarget partners was controlled, children initiated more physical aggression, nonverbal teasing, and regression after experiencing negative social comparison with the partners than after following the other treatments.
(7) Paxman claimed that at the same lunch Morgan had teased Ulrika Jonsson about the details of a private conversation she had had with Erikson, who was England manager at the time.
(8) A teased fiber technique established that the ratio of internodal distance and fiber diameter in urodele nerves was essentially similar to that in Anolis.
(9) He teased readers by adding: “By the time you read this I will know whether it has worked.” The American Academy of Neurology is sceptical about the treatment .
(10) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
(11) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(12) Surgery should be performed ideally before the early school years, when the child is subjected to the most teasing, provided both parents and the patient have realistic expectations and really want the major reconstruction.
(13) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(14) As soon as he could, Coltrane escaped to art school in Glasgow, where he had much more fun – despite being teased for sounding posh – but discovered he wasn't an artist.
(15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(16) At 12 h and 24 h after crush, however, no ovoids were apparent and the number of incisures present was determined from teased fibres by light microscopy using oil immersion.
(17) Zidane, however, was in the mood to tease his admirers.
(18) The histological study using the teasing method demonstrated the existence of unmyelinated fibres, in the thoraco-cervical region of the vagus nerve, becoming progressively myelinated from the periphery to the nodose ganglion.
(19) The most common finding in teased fibres from each leprosy type was paranodal demyelination affecting successive internodes.
(20) Functional properties of neurons regenerating axons into the grafts were studied by recording from single regenerated fibers teased from the grafts.