Example Sentences

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The line gets a laugh, but it’s a ruse: Tarantino is palming off the convolutions of his plot as a knowing gag.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

Far greater joy for him at full noon is palming off upon your guileless self the spurious scarab at a price 300% above its intrinsic worth.

From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan