fob off

Example Sentences

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Is it really sustainable for them to fob off questions about it with non-answers for weeks on end?

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023

I have never read any major news story so inappropriately world-weary — and so willing to fob off the press’ failures on the public.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2019

They put off replacement, defer maintenance and fob off concerns all in the name of “saving money” until something does happen.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018

I wouldn’t put it past Roger to play on Pete’s ambition and sense of self-importance and fob off on him some of the non-recreational aspects of the job.

From Slate • May 8, 2012

Patience—had he such patience to wait when her mother lived, or did he fob off Miles Avenon her father upon that fool's adventure wherein he was presently slain, as Uriah was slain, Bathsheba's man?

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.