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

“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.

Hunter Biden rented office space in a building owned by the Swedish government and reportedly chaffed the government by smuggling guests, including a former stripper, into the building after office hours.

He also chaffed at the Trump administration’s pursuit of what officials called the Abraham Accords — deals with Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Morocco that normalized relations with Israel but left out the Palestinians.

But a widening chasm between older conservatives and mostly younger parishioners left him battling breakaway churches that chaffed at the leftward tilt of the diocese.