palms off

verb

present tense third-person singular of palm off
as in wishes
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 Synonyms for palms off
  1. wishes
  2. passes off
  3. palms
  4. imposes
  5. inflicts
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  • If the letter writer, or anyone else facing a similar situation, wishes to wait until after a relative has passed before having conversations about where the relative’s possessions will go, this might be a good option.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The final vote came on Monday on a consent calendar, the place for matters considered so routine that no legislator even wishes to discuss them.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of wishes
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  • If Clark does manage to get passes off, USC’s lockdown secondary has the chance to live up to the hype.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Definition of passes off
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  • Sibley, trying to get between Popov and his friends, made contact with the teen, palms out and open handed, and Popov stabbed him in the heart, Jafari said.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026
Definition of palms
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  • The legislation imposes new work, eligibility and certification restrictions on Medicaid recipients that is projected to cut nearly $800 billion from Medicaid health insurance program for poor Americans over the next decade.
    — Bruce Japsen, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Still, a traditional blockade risks escalation and imposes extensive military costs on China.
    — Eugene Gholz, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of imposes
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  • Fortunately, Green’s film exists — and was not thrown into a little black hole by a bunch of accountants, never to be seen again — and can surely help cure any of the pain its backstory still inflicts on movie fans and Tunes geeks.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026
  • In the end, the young cockroaches proved so resilient because Modi’s regime of control had no punishment or humiliation to threaten them with beyond what the system already inflicts on them every day.
    — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of inflicts
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