chaff

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

But as long-range drones get larger and carry heavier payloads, chaff is becoming more attractive as a low-cost way to confuse radar defense systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

It may do better to address the chaff of quarterly earnings guidance.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

My peers would say we’ve always served that purpose, but sorting wheat from chaff isn’t the same as steering someone toward shows that are not simply satisfying but palliative.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

Along the road I saw women winnowing baskets of threshed grain in the wind, the clouds of chaff flying off in the breeze.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

“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

There is one scene in which Wrayburn chaffs the schoolmaster with easy insolence, while the latter writhes impotently under his well-bred sarcasm.

From Views and Reviews by Henry James

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

Galileo chaffs him for this, and says that it is mere superstition to connect the moon with the tides.

From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge

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 Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2016

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

Some of the causes of the anger are legitimate; the gardeners, for example, are chaffed over a lovingly tended community garden that was bulldozed by a developer.

From Time ● Jun. 1, 2016

If he's going to play the fool," said the first man, "that's why Lucy looks so glum when he's chaffed, and I don't wonder at it.

From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall

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