fobbed off
Example Sentences
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He said he felt "fobbed off" when he complained to the cruise director.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
When the nurses raised their concerns, they "genuinely felt they were not being taken seriously" and were "being in essence fobbed off by senior management and seen as trouble-makers", the panel said.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
"I was absolutely gutted and every phone call I made to the Bournemouth office, I got fobbed off."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
"Too much of my job really is taken up advising victims who feel fobbed off by the police when they report coercive control," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
But always one is fobbed off with a large white egg of demonstrative uncomeliness.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
