palming off
Example Sentences
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“Industry is simply palming off the benefits to the consumer.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019
Whereas I previously felt sad about the prospect of getting rid of all the baby kit, I’m now palming off bits of neon plastic at every opportunity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2016
The line gets a laugh, but it’s a ruse: Tarantino is palming off the convolutions of his plot as a knowing gag.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
He was fired for palming off a phony story on the city editor.
From Time Magazine Archive
He now attempted what he has attempted in every other reformatory movement,—to deceive and destroy the people by palming off upon them a counterfeit in place of the true work.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
