foist|foisted|foisting|foists in English

verb

[fɔɪst]

defraud, con into buying goods of poor quality; penetrate through cunning

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1. Foist oneself on sb.

2. You can't foist your ideas on me.

3. The dishonest shopkeeper foisted inferior goods on his customers.

4. He doesn't try to foist his beliefs on everyone.

5. I don't see my role as foisting my beliefs on them.

6. We are not trying to foist them upon you.

7. We do not attempt to foist this word upon them.

8. He tried to foist some inferior goods ( off ) on me.

9. The author discovered that the translator had foisted several passages into his book.

10. They want to renounce the pacifist constitution foisted on Japan by America.

11. He's religious but he doesn't try to foist his beliefs on everyone.

12. Translators should not foist their own opinions into the original book.

13. Some of the critics want to foist their narrow ideological positions on him.

14. I try not to foist my values on the children but it's hard.

15. Blame on (someone) To foist or assign responsibility or guilt for something on someone else

16. In the referendum voters approved the new constitution the generals want to foist on them.

17. The association is now trying to foist a high bill for ￡000 on to the couple.

18. The left have tried to foist on her the image of a limited suburban reactionary.

19. The remarkable discovery of Alloxan diabetes came about between a Professor of Pathology and an apprentice who was foisted on him

20. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) Jonathon Holt Ingraham Her bloodstained practising had succeeded in foisting one Baseborn plebeian of alien blood into the family

21. CAPTAIN KYD (VOL 1 OF 2) JONATHON HOLT INGRAHAM Her bloodstained practising had succeeded in foisting one Baseborn plebeian of alien blood into the family

22. The scientific endeavour itself is founded on values which natural selection would have seemed unlikely to foist on a bunch of violent, gregarious upright apes.

23. 29 He looked carefully at how the ideas of people like Winston Royce were misunderstood and how Royce was later unfairly chastised for foisting the waterfall model on the industry.

24. Blame for (something) To foist or assign responsibility or guilt for something on someone else (who can be mentioned between "Blame" and "for")

25. Boosterism To espouse a personal opinion or belief without relation to sourced facts or verifiable observations. To backslappingly foist your opinion on others in a jovial, manipulative way, disrespectful of objective truth