foist
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1. foist - Noun
2. foist - Adjective
3. foist - Verb
Meaning
A light and fast-sailing ship.
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
A foister; a sharper.
A trick or fraud; a swindle.
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He foisted his work on me
It was then that Dmitry Fedorovich (Ustinov) jumped at someone's bright idea to foist Aeroflot's "bride in search of a wedding" on the military.
But there's a growing discontent among London consumers that restuarants foist bottled water (expensive at that) on customers.
Some basic industry best practices aside, IS-BAH actually does not foist upon an FBO an alarming series of practices an FBO cannot abide by.
GOsh it makes me nervous to imagine what kind of post-era monstrosity of "improvement" they are going to foist upon us.
One of the good things about being a writer is that I can take episodes from my own life and foist them upon my characters.