Timeline for Alternate word for impersonate in terms of Items or things
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| May 7, 2015 at 4:29 | answer | added | potatoesandnoodles | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 7:01 | vote | accept | iJade | ||
| Aug 25, 2014 at 7:00 | answer | added | Edwin Ashworth | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Aug 25, 2014 at 6:46 | history | suggested | Dust_In_The_Wind | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:37 | comment | added | iJade | @EdwinAshworth would you mind posting this as answer so that I can mark it. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:30 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:27 | answer | added | NookToday | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:20 | comment | added | iJade | @EdwinAshworth ok ..dats sounds better | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:18 | comment | added | iJade | There seems to be a thin line between promoting a product to sell and cheating a customer by selling what may not be what he wants. So 'Push' may seem like the word | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Push' has this sense, but wouldn't work too well in this case (it's more the practice over time), and is considered slang, as in AHD: 9. Slang a. To promote or sell (a product) >> | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:11 | answer | added | brasshat | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:10 | comment | added | user66974 | You may be referring to 'hard sell' practice. | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | iJade |
@EdwinAshworth well it's more in a negative sense what I'm looking for. Suggest seem quite positive
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| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The word most people would use here is very probably 'suggests'; 'offers [me]' probably comes second. Have you a different example which works better (when 'substitutes', as Jim suggests, might well work? | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:08 | comment | added | iJade | @Josh61 not suggests but tries to make me buy another stuff saying it's better although it may not be ... | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:08 | comment | added | user66974 | You mean he 'suggests' another item? | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:06 | comment | added | Jim | how 'bout "substitutes"? | |
| Aug 25, 2014 at 6:03 | history | asked | iJade | CC BY-SA 3.0 |