"Miffed because it took me so long to come get him, but otherwise fine.

"Miffed," she said as she crossed the rough plank floor to him.

Miffed mother: How many little boys do you think get to have Godiva chocolates?

Miffed grumbles followed them.

Miffed executives at Robot-Coupe grumbled that he wasn't adequately promoting their machines and severed ties with him.

Mercker Is Miffed Kent Mercker, the left-handed reliever for Atlanta, was upset at his last-minute removal from the World Series roster.

To the Editor: I read with dismay John Tierney's Feb. 4 Big City column, "Miffed Models: Quit Pouting and Organize."

We are gathering material for "Miffed," a male analysis of women's angst, as shown in case histories like these: *Paula, a high-powered corporate lawyer with three children, is overcome with mysterious feelings of fatigue and frustration.

Now, big news: "The Miffed Chief," a new book about Chief Justice Rehnquist, argues that Perot's downfall began eight days before the roundup of the thousand-dollar suits, on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1993.

We now learn in "The Miffed Chief," a brilliant psychological study by famed Supreme Court psychological expert Sigmund O'Toole, that the Chief Justice was enraged by King's shirt-sleeved performance.

Miffed journalists noted that there were none of the more sumptuous offerings - lamb chops and the like - of the more commodious media parties thrown by the President last year, a month before the press plunged into the Lewinsky scandal.

To the Editor: Re "Miffed Chinese Sue Japan Companies" (news article, Aug. 7): The article asserts that Japan has never fully apologized to China for Japan's actions during World War II.

Miffed players said that Commissioner David Stern's dress diktat - collared shirts, dress slacks, khakis or jeans and shoes to team-related events and a sport coat if out of action and sitting on the bench during the game - crushed their individuality.

Malone Says He's Not Miffed Contrary to popular thought last week, Karl Malone is not a stodgy old complainer who is emotionally wounded because the N.B.A. is promoting young players more than, say, stodgy old complainers.