chaff

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

As a drone countermeasure, the use of chaff isn’t completely new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 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

“The big challenge for investors is to separate the wheat from the chaff and make sure that they don’t punish the true winners,” he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

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

“O I’m des a fishing, Brer Fox,” says he; and Brer Fox goes into the bucket while Brer Rabbit escapes and chaffs his comrade.

From Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by William Alexander Clouston

Hume Wheler, who, with Tom Lane, occasionally drops in upon them during his periodical trips from the interior, often chaffs his old friends upon that celebrated trophy.

From Tales of South Africa by H.A. Bryden

Other supporters chaffed at accusations that they are trying to ban books.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Meanwhile, Faulconer’s middle-ground politics have chaffed with some of his party’s conservative activists.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

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

I sent her a hundred dollars, the sum she specified, but in writing her thanks, she "chaffed" me for not making out a cheque.

From Lord John in New York by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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