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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fob .
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Examples
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Ashleigh Hall's mother said she felt "fobbed" off by the report.
BBC News - Home 2011
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She said families who attended inquests into deaths at the hospital felt they were too often 'fobbed' off with accidental verdicts, when neglect by the hospital should have been identified.
Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph 2009
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"She spoke early on about guest workers, and we fobbed it off," says a Rio Tinto executive.
Australia's Tough Boss And Free-Market Crusader Tim Treadgold 2011
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Liverpudlians are being fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how the stadium will regenerate the north of the city
Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool Marina Hyde 2010
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"It's a shame that the climax awaiting them is the most strained and silly the bestselling author has ever fobbed off on her devoted readers."
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"She spoke early on about guest workers, and we fobbed it off," says a Rio Tinto executive.
Miner's Daughter Tim Treadgold 2011
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This can be fobbed off on the casual reader from time to time, and when I encountered it in the first sentence above I decided to let it slide because I'm enjoying Feist's book.
Word Repetition and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010
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As it is, whenever sport-led regeneration is proposed in this country, the public is fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how it will benefit and regenerate local communities – and in some cases, we seem to be dispensing with even that fig leaf.
Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool Marina Hyde 2010
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This can be fobbed off on the casual reader from time to time, and when I encountered it in the first sentence above I decided to let it slide because I'm enjoying Feist's book.
Word Repetition and Sundry marshallpayne1 2010
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Because I am poetically challenged, I fobbed the judging of the poetry contest onto my son Gordon, (author of “Flight of the Pellets”) who is home for two weeks in between interning with the Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C. this summer and beginning his junior year of college.
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