fob off
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
InformalRegister
To deal with someone dismissively by giving them an unsatisfactory explanation or something inferior in place of what they want.
They fobbed me off with a voucher when I was clearly entitled to a full refund.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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