Used in a Sentence

peeve

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for peeve.

Editorial note

My pet peeve of the US banking system: Why does an ACH transfer take 2-3 days in the US, yet in other developed countries, the transfer is instantaneous?

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Quick take

(colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of peeve gathered in one view.

noun

(colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

verb

(colloquial) To annoy; vex.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for peeve.

noun

(colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

verb

(colloquial) To annoy; vex.

Example sentences

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My pet peeve of the US banking system: Why does an ACH transfer take 2-3 days in the US, yet in other developed countries, the transfer is instantaneous?

2

It's obvious this is some kind of pet peeve, but a little googling would answer your own questions.

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This is a pet peeve of mine because often in the first year not much happens.

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The other peeve is this business of upgrades starting with Windows 7 and not Vista.

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My pet peeve is front-end tests that ask you to write maintainable code, but you're not allowed to use any libraries.

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Another pet peeve is to relable things that are clearly bugs as 'request for enhancement'.

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This is my pet peeve lately when I see people throwing that number around.

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Sorry for the digression, it's just a pet peeve.

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A pet-peeve; this is meaningless without a distance.

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This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but that banner image is 10 megabytes, it can be compressed down to 2mb without any perceptible loss of quality.

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>For Centuries Forgive me, pure pet peeve: it's a tiny bit more than one century - the 1st reported issue is from 1906.

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There's also one pet peeve I have with Microsoft - so Windows Phone still doesn't support CalDAV / CardDAV, insisting of course on Microsoft's own proprietary Exchange.

Quote examples

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Pet peeve: replacing a flesh and blood broker with a web site is not "cutting out the middleman".

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It's a pet peeve of ours, too, when titles abuse "you".

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Pet peeve of mine: It's actually the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences" or "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

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I just wanted to post this since claiming to be "Erlang-style" while not implementing any of the functionality that actually makes Erlang different (links, automatic cross-machine serialization, OTP) is becoming a pet peeve.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use peeve in a sentence?

My pet peeve of the US banking system: Why does an ACH transfer take 2-3 days in the US, yet in other developed countries, the transfer is instantaneous?

What does peeve mean?

(colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

What part of speech is peeve?

peeve is commonly used as noun, verb.