chaff

But for my money, there is too much tedious, mealymouthed chaff obscuring what should be her larger point.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

One drone can release chaff to hide another or create enough confusion for a strike package to get through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Put simply, while the biggest stocks in the AI trade still dominate index performance with the sheer heft of their market values, investors are separating the wheat from the chaff in the recent pullback.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

It's more about whether you actually believe in something — and boy, oh boy, has the wheat been separated from the chaff in that respect.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

“One American can relish hugely the entertainment afforded when one quizzical Englishman chaffs his shy, ineloquent countrymen without expecting all other Americans to shake with laughter at the same spectacle,” Woollcott wrote.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2014

He snarls as well as chaffs at a world with the gout.

From Time Magazine Archive

I almost never see him, and when he does remember me he chaffs me as if I were a silly child.

From Together by Robert Herrick

The youngster is jollier than ever, and chaffs his discomfited friend, whom he pronounces in private an awful snob.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

One of them dies, the other laughs; The seconds smile, the doctor chaffs.

From When hearts are trumps by Thomas Winthrop Hall

“A scandal with all the potential ramifications of Watergate, but where everyone involved is stupid and bad at everything,” Oliver chaffed on his weekly late-night satirical show.

From Washington Times ● May 1, 2023

These are a godsend for my inner thighs on long, sweaty summer runs, when they otherwise become a red chaffed mess.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019

Backstrom chaffed at Presidents' Trophy talk late last season after winning it in 2009 preceded a first-round exit.

From US News ● Oct. 3, 2016

Christie’s new structure chaffed many of the 125 longtime prosecutors who previously moved freely between silos and were already predisposed to distrust the newcomer and his full embrace of new surveillance programs.

From Time ● Nov. 23, 2015

“You are chaffed because you get angry,” he said; “if you try to be jolly instead of sulky you'll be let alone!”

From Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It causes less chaffing than other bras I’ve owned, too.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2019

And it works very well to help prevent chaffing, too.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2019

I walked and ran through the heat of my chaffing toes and the cold of my shredded heels.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2018

At one point Mr Fucarile stops the interview - his new prosthetic leg is chaffing, and he is beginning to blister.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2014

Rondon kept his temper under control but made the chaffing remark, “Well, you have had a splendid bath, eh?”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple