It requires a fertile and high-functioning brain to take something as simple as the truth and twist it, palming off the deception on someone else with the earnestness of a choirboy.

这需要丰富并功能强大的大脑把一些事想象成真实的并歪曲它，用唱诗班少年般的真诚让他人信以为真。

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Flexibility with financial caps, they fret, is simply code for palming off the financial burdens of Medicaid on to the states.

ECONOMIST: Medicaid reform

In the present case, the claims against Mr. Vaughan are straightforward: trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, Texas unfair competition, including right of publicity, palming off and misappropriation.

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