palm off

verb

Definition of palm offnext
as in to wish
to offer (something fake, useless, or inferior) as genuine, useful, or valuable please stop trying to palm off your leftovers onto me

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Recent Examples of palm off France took the lead with a solo try from Ntamack, who ran down the short side from about 22-meters out, dummied, palmed off a defender and crashed over in a tackle in the 52nd, and conversion from skipper Maxime Lucu. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Lift your right palm off the ground and cross your torso to tap your left shoulder, then return your right hand to the ground. — Jenessa Connor, Health, 28 May 2026 While other firms have trimmed entry-level hiring as AI takes over the admin tasks normally palmed off to younger workers, EY is actively investing in early-career talent. — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 The unique shape helps keep your palm off the table while offering a spot for your thumb to rest. — Brenda Stolyar, Wired News, 9 May 2025 However, in spite of this price increase and attempts to palm off blame, there is hardly any middle-class anger even resembling that which existed during the last years of the UPA. — Shoaib Daniyal, Quartz India, 21 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palm off
  1. wish
  2. pass off
  3. inflict
  4. impose
  5. fob off
  6. palm
Verb
  • People who want to avoid long lines and those who might not have time to go to their polling location on Election Day may wish to take advantage of early voting.
    — TIME Staff, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Despite the claims of any number of charlatans who prey on the American brand of cuddly benighted ignorance, the universe will not manifest an alternate reality for anyone who simply wishes for it with sufficient longing.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of wish
Verb
  • Both parents died before Mears was three, and he was passed off among relatives who didn’t want to care for him.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Jadyn Glasser completed 13 of 15 passes off the bench for 88 yards for Central Michigan (2-2).
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of pass off
Verb
  • Of the tens of thousands of casualties Russia suffers each month, up to 90% are inflicted by drones.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Although inflicting pain globally, the energy crisis is biting particularly hard in the rural expanses and communities of the European Union’s largest country by area.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of inflict
Verb
  • Nighttime curfews were also imposed in parts of Altai and in Baikalsk, in the Irkutsk region.
    — Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Trade tensions between the EU and China have grown in recent months, with both sides imposing or considering curbs on each other’s imports.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of impose
Verb
  • Your potential clients are terrified of being sold the dream then fobbed off to a junior team member.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Not only does Israel not have spare luxury jets lying around to fob off on the American president, but the country took nine years to retrofit and launch its own version of Air Force One, and the process was a national fiasco.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
Definition of fob off
Verb
  • For the final punchline, Bounou shuffled right, stood upright, and palmed away Crysencio Summerville’s effort.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 7 July 2026
  • Al-Amri, who had a shot denied by Uruguay's Fernando Muslera earlier in the first half, put his squad ahead with a quick tap-in after Muslera palmed away a header.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 15 June 2026
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