foist
IPA: fˈɔɪst
noun
- (historical slang) A thief or pickpocket.
- (obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
- (obsolete) A cask for wine.
- Fustiness; mustiness.
verb
- (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
- (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
- (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
adjective
- Pronunciation spelling of first. [Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.]
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Examples of "foist" in Sentences
- I'd love to have someone "foist" something as nice as that on me!
- While it could be interesting, one may hope GoOgle will not foist aka force it upon gmail users.
- Dewar supported the back-to-work bill, saying if the city and the union would not go to arbitration voluntarily Parliament would "foist" it upon them.
- Besides, I'm one of those strange people who prefers live versions of songs over the over produced studio recordings the labels foist upon the artists.
- If we can't "foist" religious values on our young why should we be able to foist any kind of "man made" relative belief in the worth of any kind of values?
- You would think the miserable little people who foist this politically correct left wing stupidity upon us would considering applying for citizenship elsewhere.
- Everyone from Ickes to retired General Pershing to Eleanor Roosevelt to even his brother Vincent tried to foist friends or relatives on him, many the Army had rejected as physically unfit.
- It is a little unusual, in fact, more than a little unusual that they didn't have the complaint filed and that the police went out there and are now going to kind of foist it upon the DA's office.
- The 84-year-old leader caused outrage in October 2005 when he used a speech at the FAO to tell donor nations not to "foist" food on Zimbabwe and compared the then British premier Tony Blair to Italy's wartime dictator, Benito Mussolini.
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