peeving
- present participle of peeve.
Example Sentences
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No-one needs point out to Starmer himself that changing the leadership mid-government causes huge disruption to Whitehall and the country by slowing down the government's work and peeving the public.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Vigilante peeving does nothing to actually educate people.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Instead of peeving about supposed incorrect usage, they find themselves using better dictionaries, consulting better usage guides, and looking at cost-free high-quality online materials - such as language corpora - to figure it out.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2011
I can't say I was wholly faultless in peeving Governor Reed but I couldn't let him get away with that.
From Time Magazine Archive
I guess he’s afraid now the boy will copy his bad example, and that’s peeving Mr. Phillips.”
From The Boy Scouts of Lenox by Webster, Frank V.
