Synonyms for chaff
tʃæf, tʃɑfchaff

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1. 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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1. chaff

   Synonyms:
   banter, badinage, nonsense, frivolity, trash, chaffer

   Antonyms:
   emphasis, seriousness, sense, substance, reason, argument, marrow, pith, gist

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1. 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, husk

2. chaffverb

   foil in thin strips; ejected into the air as a radar countermeasure

   Synonyms:
   stubble, husk, stalk, straw, shuck

3. 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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1. chaffnoun

   Synonyms:
   husks, hulls, glumes

2. chaffnoun

   Synonyms:
   refuse, worthless matter

3. chaffverb

   Synonyms:
   ridicule, mock, scoff, deride, jeer, flout, make fun of, POKE FUN AT

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1. chaffnoun

   Synonyms:
   glumes, hulls, refuse

2. chaffnoun

   Synonyms:
   banter, raillery, pleasantry, jesting, badinage

3. chaffverb

   Synonyms:
   jest, banter

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1. List of paraphrases for "chaff":

   glitter, straw, bathwater

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1. Mike Peterson:

   So what we intend to do is keep the calm and keep the good inclusion, belonging, kindness, respect, but anything that creeps over into critical race theory, division, intersectionality, some voices being more valid based on the speaker and not on the merit or the virtue of the argument, we're going to separate the wheat from the chaff, keep the good and we're going to get rid of the bad.

2. Adlai E. Stevenson II:

   Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff.

3. Richard Marles:

   The J-16 ... accelerated and cut across the nose of the P-8, settling in front of the P-8 at very close distance, at that moment, it then released a bundle of chaff, which contains small pieces of aluminum, some of which were ingested into the engine of the P-8 aircraft. Quite obviously, this is very dangerous.

4. Elbert Hubbard:

   Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

5. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.:

   Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.