Peeve is an English word with synonyms like temper or gravel. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Peeve meaning
An annoyance or grievance.
Synonyms of Peeve
Using Peeve
- The main meaning on this page is: An annoyance or grievance.
- Useful related words include: temper, gravel, nettle, nark.
- In the example corpus, peeve often appears in combinations such as: pet peeve, peeve of.
Context around Peeve
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Peeve
- In this selection, "peeve" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pet and kristine stand out and add context to how "peeve" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pet peeve for many and a pet peeve kristine wrote. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "peeve" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with peeve
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This is my biggest pet-peeve! (6 words)
Asked to describe a “pet peeve,” Kristine wrote about her dog. (11 words)
Season 2 has been killer, and thankfully avoided a genre pet peeve of mine. (14 words)
By the way, I've just got to say, too, because it's a pet peeve, the man who promised to pay down the debt and balance the budget in 2016 raised it more than any president in the history of this republic. (43 words)
That is because another focus is making the 167m online shopping parcels delivered to British homes each month greener, eliminating unnecessary plastic bags and bubble wrap, as well as half-empty boxes, a pet peeve for many Britons. (38 words)
The lack of diligence when it comes to road line painting has been a pet peeve of many islanders and the subject of more than one cranky Driftwood editorial in the past several years. (34 words)
This is my biggest pet-peeve! (6 words)
Example sentences (6)
By the way, I've just got to say, too, because it's a pet peeve, the man who promised to pay down the debt and balance the budget in 2016 raised it more than any president in the history of this republic.
Season 2 has been killer, and thankfully avoided a genre pet peeve of mine.
That is because another focus is making the 167m online shopping parcels delivered to British homes each month greener, eliminating unnecessary plastic bags and bubble wrap, as well as half-empty boxes, a pet peeve for many Britons.
The lack of diligence when it comes to road line painting has been a pet peeve of many islanders and the subject of more than one cranky Driftwood editorial in the past several years.
Asked to describe a “pet peeve,” Kristine wrote about her dog.
This is my biggest pet-peeve!
Common combinations with peeve
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pet peeve 5×
- peeve of 2×