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fobbing off

verb

present participle of fob off
as in wishing
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable people who try to fob off to charities broken-down furniture that is fit only for the junkyard

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fobbing off
  1. wishing
  2. imposing
  3. inflicting
  4. passing off
Verb
  • Cure should not mean handing a young adult a treatment summary and wishing them well.
    — Vidya Puthenpura, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Those who remain and continue to support the most corrupt administration in our nation's history are here, wishing for our bakery to burn to the ground.
    — Natassia Paloma, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of wishing
Verb
  • Massive, black, and imposing, Mountains and Clouds is Calder’s final work and the only one of his pieces to combine a separate mobile and stabile.
    — Sarah Douglas, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Boise and Garden City adopted regulations this summer distinguishing e-motorcycles from e-bikes and imposing additional requirements for their use on city streets.
    — Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of imposing
Verb
  • Alexander Kuzmenko, 62, was fishing with a group of people along the Bolshoy Yenisey River in Russia's Republic of Tuva when the bear attacked him, inflicting severe injuries to his head and face.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Lopez had been sentenced in Los Angeles County to 29 years in prison for assault with a semiautomatic firearm with enhancements for street gang activity, inflicting great bodily injury and use of a firearm, officials said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of inflicting
Verb
  • Up to now, those accused of passing off a computer’s writing as their own have tended to either apologize or deny it.
    — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In academia, there is no greater sin than passing off another’s work as one’s own.
    — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of passing off
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“Fobbing off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fobbing%20off. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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