Sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive.
1 This Haberdasher would fob off on thee.
2 She did her best to fob off a question on the topic during an appearance on Sunrise yesterday.
3 Elsa Pataky did her best to fob off a question about her brother-in-law Liam Hemsworth on Sunrise this morning.
4 Now it is obviously critical flippancy to fob off D. H. Lawrence as another example of Romanticism gone to seed.
5 Cembalest's diagram includes a dozen different stakeholders, each trying to fob off the burden of the euro crisis onto someone else.
6 Her Sunrise co-host David 'Kochie' Koch grilled Armytage for details about the proposal which she did her best to fob off .
7 People sound the same as they did before, and the grievances of apartheid are kept alive so as to fob off responsibility.
8 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews did his best to fob off a question about a "critical" press release issued by the Prime Minister.
9 Well-run societies do not defend men who make money from worried parents and, more seriously, fob off their children with bogus "cures".
10 National continues to fob off criticism of its role by blaming the previous Labour-led Government for leaving a mess for it to clean up.
11 Clem, of course, would not be fobbed off with such vague excuses.
12 I don't want any more excuses or fob offs , let's get going.
13 Why do we just go on accepting that we're being fobbed off ?
14 Does he think she's a girl, to be fobbed off with compliments?
15 The man in the parlour has been fobbed off with Miss Howlett.
16 I'm not going to be fobbed off with a mere excuse, Ainley.
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