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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

But many is the time I have chaffed him about the night he thought he had wandered into the German lines.

From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George

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

Scott was perfectly well aware that Opdyke would not have chaffed some of those other girls upon such short acquaintance, and the surety made him restless.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

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