1. foist(v = verb.communication) - to force onto another; "He foisted his work on me"
is one way to bring down, impose, inflict, visit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something on somebody
2. foist(v = verb.change) - insert surreptitiously or without warrant;
is one way to enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something PP
A light and fast-sailing ship. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
" Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in abuses and corruption." [1913 Webster]
" When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a supposititious foisting of some words in." [1913 Webster]
1. A foister; a sharper. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
2. A trick or fraud; a swindle. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
foist, v.tr. (foll. by (off) on, (off) upon)
1 present (a thing) falsely as genuine or superior.
2 falsely fix the ownership of.
3 (foll. by in, into) introduce surreptitiously or unwarrantably.
Etymology:
orig. of palming a false die, f. Du. dial. vuisten take in the hand f. vuist FIST
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