have chaffed
- present perfect of chaff.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Faulconer’s middle-ground politics have chaffed with some of his party’s conservative activists.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 2, 2021
And yet they would have "chaffed" him in five minutes after, if they had had the opportunity.
From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring
They might have chaffed him considerably more, but just then Jack interrupted them with the startled exclamation: "Hark, boys!"
From Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by
I wouldn't have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world," he cried, dropping into his chair; "I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it.
From A Study in Scarlet by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
I believe if Tim had got him in church, he would have chaffed him.
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
