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chaff

noun as in waste

verb as in joke, ridicule

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Conscious reasoning is helpful in sorting the wheat from the chaff, but it would be interesting to consider the hidden aquifers that make much of the grain grow in the first place.

Assam is Modi’s grand laboratory, where he is putting Muslims to the litmus test of a citizen verification drive—separating the trueborn from the chaff—before taking it national.

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The wheat from the chaff will get separated very, very quickly here.

You’re trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

There is good free content on YouTube—including on Perrigo’s or Albrecht’s feeds—but you have to sift through a lot of chaff.

For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.

I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.

Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.

For a graduate seminar at Georgetown, the chaff-to-wheat ratio is disturbingly high.

Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.

Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.

I'm told that the old men when they were together would chaff each other about their children.

The soft easy chaff bed gave her more of rest and satisfaction than if it had been eiderdown.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chaff, such as: crust, debris, dregs, husks, pod, and refuse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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