fobbed off
Example Sentences
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It heard he should have been identified as a threat and action taken sooner after he was reported as suspicious by a member of the public, who was "fobbed off".
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
"I was absolutely gutted and every phone call I made to the Bournemouth office, I got fobbed off."
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2025
"Too much of my job really is taken up advising victims who feel fobbed off by the police when they report coercive control," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025
She said she felt "fobbed off" when she told doctors about her constipation and rectal bleeding.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024
"When you was at what?" insisted Bross, declining to be fobbed off with any such flimsy evasion.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William
