chaffy

adjective

Definition of chaffynext
as in worthless
having no usefulness a decidedly chaffy book that is basically a collection of old interviews with celebrities

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaffy
  1. worthless
  2. empty
Adjective
  • Winning contracts settle at $1, while losing contracts become worthless.
    — Melissa Lee,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026
  • To make the present feel worthless and unwanted before its time is up.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of worthless
Adjective
  • Crosby added a late empty-net goal, diving face-first on the ice to tip it home.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Quinn Sullivan started the sequence with a cross in front of goal that Indiana Vassilev settled and pulled goalkeeper William Yarbrough out of his area to find Cavan Sullivan for a close-range finish into an empty net.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of empty
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“Chaffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaffy. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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