foist

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/ fɔɪst /

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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 vuistfist¹

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, foisted newfound flexibility into traditional TV advertising and threw traditional production and programming pipelines in flux.
Here are the five major forces and trends that will shape the future of TV in 2021|Tim Peterson|January 6, 2021|Digiday
As I wrote in a feature about China’s digital currency plans earlier this year, the People’s Bank of China has continually foisted new rules and regulations onto the digital set for years.
Why regulators sidelined Ant Financial’s record-setting IPO|rhhackettfortune|November 3, 2020|Fortune
And now, as a part of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, North Carolina is about to have the sinful practice foisted on it.
Who Are the Judicial Activists Now?|Michael Tomasky|October 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then the party's policy shop foisted the Ryan plan upon him.
Stuart Stevens, Half Right|David Frum|February 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The oft-quoted figure of six million dead, he maintains, was but a myth, foisted on the world by the singularly demonic Zionists.
Abbas Alleges Link Between Zionists And Nazis|David N. Myers|January 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In 2008, he foisted Sarah Palin upon an unsuspecting nation.
Michael Tomasky on How John McCain Humiliated Himself on Susan Rice|Michael Tomasky|November 25, 2012|DAILY BEAST
That the rules had changed was a fact foisted upon McCain before his campaign had properly started.
McCain's Brilliant Campaign, Four Years Too Late|Caroline Marks|November 4, 2008|DAILY BEAST
It was for no love of her child that, by her agency, young Lucius had been foisted into the position of Haggard's heir.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume III (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Among the many reforms foisted upon China by the Powers is a college.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2|Various
He turned and surveyed the multitude, including the black boy, that we had foisted upon him.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady
I can see the rooms crusted with ormolu, the fauns foisted on the ceiling, the ripping rident goddesses on the walls.
Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 27th, 1894|Various
Thus was a belief in the assumption foisted upon the Church, having no slightest ground in fact.
Our Lady Saint Mary|J. G. H. Barry

British Dictionary definitions for foist

foist

/ (fɔɪst) /

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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