Sentence examples for buck-passing from inspiring English sources

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buck-passing

noun

Blame shifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.

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This is no more than buck-passing.

The expected decision smacks of buck-passing.

Birmingham accused Jones of buck-passing.

I sense some buck-passing going on".

His post-match observations sounded like a buck-passing whinge.

But buck-passing was the order of the day.

The ultimate act of Sunday league buck-passing.

In other words, it's another case of buck-passing.

In the meantime the postmortems and buck-passing began.

Some hope.The most vigorous activity visible in officialdom is energetic buck-passing.

It also provides fertile ground for bureaucratic shirking and buck-passing.

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