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Antonyms for chaff
tʃæf, tʃɑfchaff
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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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The faults of others are easily perceived, but those of oneself are difficult to perceive; a man winnows his neighbour?s faults like chaff, but his own fault he hides as a cheat hides the false dice from the gamester.
If you borrow some chaff from the rich man you have to repay him with wheat.
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.
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.
To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.
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