fobbed off

Example Sentences

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But 59-year-old Franklin said she had been "fobbed off" by the company.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

"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

"I have to do the chasing, they never ring me, I've explained my situation, I'm really struggling and I just get fobbed off," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2025

"It's really common for young girls to get fobbed off and be told it's a mental health condition, when actually that's not the case," she says.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024

But I feel that the writer who was perhaps the greatest essayist that England has ever produced must not in these letters be fobbed off with so slight a notice and quotation.

From The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson by Coleridge, Stephen