foist [ foist ] SHOW IPA
/ fɔɪst / PHONETIC RESPELLING
verb (used with object)
to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually followed by on or upon ): to foist inferior merchandise on a customer.
to bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently (usually followed by in or into ): to foist political views into a news story.
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Origin of foist 1535–45; <Dutch dialect
vuisten, derivative of
vuist fist1
OTHER WORDS FROM foist un·foist·ed, adjective
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How to use foist in a sentence It catalyzed the shift to streaming, foist ed newfound flexibility into traditional TV advertising and threw traditional production and programming pipelines in flux.
As I wrote in a feature about China’s digital currency plans earlier this year, the People’s Bank of China has continually foist ed new rules and regulations onto the digital set for years.
And now, as a part of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, North Carolina is about to have the sinful practice foist ed on it.
Then the party's policy shop foist ed the Ryan plan upon him.
The oft-quoted figure of six million dead, he maintains, was but a myth, foist ed on the world by the singularly demonic Zionists.
In 2008, he foist ed Sarah Palin upon an unsuspecting nation.
That the rules had changed was a fact foist ed upon McCain before his campaign had properly started.
It was for no love of her child that, by her agency, young Lucius had been foist ed into the position of Haggard's heir.
Among the many reforms foist ed upon China by the Powers is a college.
He turned and surveyed the multitude, including the black boy, that we had foist ed upon him.
I can see the rooms crusted with ormolu, the fauns foist ed on the ceiling, the ripping rident goddesses on the walls.
Thus was a belief in the assumption foist ed upon the Church, having no slightest ground in fact.
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British Dictionary definitions for foist
verb (tr)
(often foll by off or on ) to sell or pass off (something, esp an inferior article) as genuine, valuable, etc
(usually foll by in or into ) to insert surreptitiously or wrongfully
Word Origin for foist C16: probably from obsolete Dutch vuisten to enclose in one's hand, from Middle Dutch vuist fist
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