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Antonyms for chaff
tʃæf, tʃɑfchaff
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
chaff
Banter is the touching upon some fault, weakness, or fancied secret of another in a way half to pique and half to please; badinage is delicate, refined banter. Raillery has more sharpness, but is usually good-humored and well meant. Irony, the saying one thing that the reverse may be understood, may be either mild or bitter. All the other words have a hostile intent. Ridicule makes a person or thing the subject of contemptuous merriment; derision seeks to make the object derided seem utterly despicable — to laugh it to scorn. Chaff is the coarse witticism of the streets, perhaps merry, oftener malicious; jeering is loud, rude ridicule, as of a hostile crowd or mob. Mockery is more studied, and may include mimicry and personal violence, as well as scornful speech. A satire is a formal composition; a sarcasm may be an impromptu sentence. The satire shows up follies to keep people from them; the sarcasm hits them because they are foolish, without inquiring whether it will do good or harm; the satire is plainly uttered; the sarcasm is covert.
Synonyms:
badinage, banter, derision, irony, jeering, mockery, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm, satire
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Princeton's WordNet
chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Synonyms:
stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, angry walk, pale yellow, straw, drinking straw, still hunt, stalking, stem, huskchaffverb
foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure
kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banterverb
be silly or tease one another
"After we relaxed, we just kidded around"
Synonyms:
jolly, pull the leg of, banter, josh, kid
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How to use chaff in a sentence?
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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