chaff

For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.

I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.

Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.

For a graduate seminar at Georgetown, the chaff-to-wheat ratio is disturbingly high.

Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.

Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.

I'm told that the old men when they were together would chaff each other about their children.

The soft easy chaff bed gave her more of rest and satisfaction than if it had been eiderdown.