Definition of "palm off" [palm• off]

• To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine. (verb)

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• "I couldn’t manage the Duchess, and I can’t palm off your arts on Louisa Bry as mine."
• "It's quite enough to palm off a free woman upon this respectable company, without turning buy-bidder at the sale!”"
• "We are sure now that it was Count Walsegg who wished to palm off the composition as one of his own."