Sentence example with the word 'foist'

foist

bamboozle, crash, dupe, hoodwink, inject in, interpose, overreach, push off, shift the blame, swindle, wish

Definition v. to force onto another

Last update: July 11, 2015


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The government has decided to foist yet another tax increase on the public.    [Please select]

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When I vote for city council members, I try to vote for those who will not foist awful mandates upon the city.   [Please select]

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If my esteemed neighbor, the State's ambassador, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of human rights in the Council Chamber, instead of being threatened with the prisons of Carolina, were to sit down the prisoner of Massachusetts, that State which is so anxious to foist the sin of slavery upon her sister--though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with her--the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject the following winter.   [Please select]

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''Tis some base-born churl's son that the wizard Merlin would foist upon us.   [Please select]

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'It is really too bad to have this noisy creature foisted on us just now.'   [Please select]

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And now the Works Committee were going to foist an assistant on him.   [Please select]

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Suppose we divide up the responsibility and foist half of it on Stephen.   [Please select]

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That is, he never sought to foist bogus or fraudulent undertakings upon the community.   [Please select]

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It is represented in earlier English by "foist" and "fuste."   [Please select]

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"Ye don't foist that take-in on me, John Andre."   [Please select]

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"We don't want any Fourth Form girls foisted on us."   [Please select]

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