Sentence examples for is fobbed off from inspiring English sources
The child is fobbed off with happiness when what she really wants is to get her appetite back.
Bryce Dallas Howard, whose pale and unnerving looks would make her a perfect villainess, is fobbed off with a role of smiling fluff.
Catherine's marriage to Alec Newman's fleshy, well-moulded construction worker comes under stress and strain, but she takes up more cudgels at work as her radium poisoning is fobbed off with false diagnosis and aspirin prescription.
"I do feel we were fobbed off," he said.
Non-receipt of tickets – constantly being "fobbed off".
He has been fobbed off, but has persisted.
The idea that the UK is going to be fobbed off with a 'stopgap' is embarrassing.
If you think you're being fobbed off, get in touch with Citizens Advice consumer rights team.
But despite repeated attempts to alert management to the problems, he was fobbed off, he claims.
Shareholders, and directors, were in no mood to be fobbed off with the usual explanations.
Lonely, fatherless and unhappily promiscuous, Anna has been fobbed off on her uncle for the summer.
