Thesaurus results for CHAFFED

chaffed

verb

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past tense of chaff

as in teased

to make fun of in a good-natured way chaffed her about the brightly colored shirt she had received as a gift

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as in joked

to make jokes a coworker who likes to chaff at others' expense, and this often results in hurt feelings

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Recent Examples of chaffed And those advertisers that once chaffed at TV-MA content have been more willing to embrace racy fare in order to appeal to younger viewers who aren’t concerned with a few F-bombs or raw images. —

Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025

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Then for the first time in a real race, rocket starts by Charles Leclerc, who went from fourth to first by Turn 1, and Lewis Hamilton from down in seventh, teased a potential fight that would disrupt the Mercedes domination narrative.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Jay Kim, executive vice president at Samsung's mobile business, teased some details about the smart glasses for the first time, on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona.

— Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2026