pet peeve

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• One of my greatest pet peeves in anime is the glossy disregard for detail in action scenes.
• SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables. AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
• My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
• The misuse of the term hypocrite is just a pet peeve of mine. If you are truly opposed to abortion, why would you have amniocentesis -- as Sarah Palin did -- knowing that it might kill the unborn child?
• One of my biggest pet peeves is anti-takeover measures like poison pills and staggered boards that destroy shareholder value. The Value Of Investing In Virtue And Vice
• Wolf — bad pseudo-medievalism is one of my pet peeves, but that’s an entire other blog post. First Girl Ever at SF Novelists
• Finally, a pet peeve that I find frequently in poorly edited tutorials: the desire to show off the language by presenting clever tricks or small hacks it can accomplish.
• Some "pet peeves" of mine concerning dress are: bra straps that show. underwear that shows (and this goes for the boys too). tattoos, which make a woman look hard. any kind of facial pierce. clothing that is the wrong size, either too small (making it unattractively clingy) or too large (making it look like a sack). Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
• grammatical mistakes are his pet peeve
• Pet peeve about your teammate: Sometimes he second guesses my judgment.