Foist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention” ( J.D. Salinger).
  • v. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss.
  • v. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
  • v. To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
  • v. To pass off as genuine or worthy.
  • n. A thief or pickpocket.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A light and fast-sailing ship.
  • v. 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.
  • n. A foister; a sharper.
  • n. A trick or fraud; a swindle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A breaking wind without noise: same as fist, 1.
  • n. A puffball.
  • n. A sly trick; a juggle; an imposition.
  • n. A cheat; a sharper.
  • n. A cutpurse; a pickpocket. Also foister.
  • To work in by a trick; thrust in wrongfully, surreptitiously, or without warrant; insert or obtrude fraudulently or by imposition; pass or palm off as genuine or worthy: followed by in or into before the thing affected, and by upon before the person: as, to foist a spurious document upon one.
  • To falsify or make fraudulent by some insertion; cog, as a die.
  • To smell musty: same as fust.
  • Same as foisty.
  • n. A light and fast-sailing ship.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. insert surreptitiously or without warrant
  • v. to force onto another
  • Verb Form
    foisted    foisting    foists   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    enclose    inclose    introduce    insert    stick in    Putin    bring down    inflict    visit    impose   
    Cross Reference
    introduce   
    Form
    foisted    foisting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    interpolate    foister    sharper    swindle    palm    pawn off    fob off    palm off    pass off   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hoist    joist    moist    rejoiced    voiced   
    Same Context
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