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palming off

n. (context legal English) The act of misrepresenting a counterfeit product as the genuine article. vb. (present participle of palm off English)

Usage examples of "palming off".

But you were trying to damn your patient by the World, that is by palming off vanity, bustle, irony, and expensive tedium as pleasures.

Sometimes, after palming off a particularly fantastic and outrageous lie upon me, he was so ’.

Say that I consider that the manufacturer of the thing ought to be in Colney Hatch--if he isn't there already--and that they are scoundrels for palming off a groggy machine of that sort on me.