Foist
verb
To push something or someone unwanted onto another person or group.
The company was notorious for foisting inferior goods onto its customers.
Often appears as...
- foist something upon
- foist something off
verb
To push something or someone unwanted onto another person or group.
The company was notorious for foisting inferior goods onto its customers.
Often appears as...
- foist something upon
- foist something off
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Foist implies deception or force. It carries an underlying sense of wrongdoing or trickery.
He tried to foist the blame on his colleague.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Interaction
Used when someone pressures another into accepting something undesired, often in social or work settings.
Don't let them foist their workload onto you.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Pressure
Foist doesn't always mean openly forced; it can be done in a sneaky or subtle manner.
She foisted her duties onto the interns without them realizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Foist implies deception or force. It carries an underlying sense of wrongdoing or trickery.
He tried to foist the blame on his colleague.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Interaction
Used when someone pressures another into accepting something undesired, often in social or work settings.
Don't let them foist their workload onto you.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Pressure
Foist doesn't always mean openly forced; it can be done in a sneaky or subtle manner.
She foisted her duties onto the interns without them realizing.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Foist implies deception or force. It carries an underlying sense of wrongdoing or trickery.
He tried to foist the blame on his colleague.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Interaction
Used when someone pressures another into accepting something undesired, often in social or work settings.
Don't let them foist their workload onto you.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Pressure
Foist doesn't always mean openly forced; it can be done in a sneaky or subtle manner.
She foisted her duties onto the interns without them realizing.
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Video examples
Kayvon Tehranian: How...
than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces. We’ve tried to foist copyright,
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Hubble's Final Mission PIPE...
leading the highly skilled team of spacewalkers is veteran hubble astronaut John Grunsfeld this is John's third mission to the Hubble joining John for three of the spacewalks is rookie astronaut drew foist 'el another Hubble
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Kayvon Tehranian: How...
than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces. We’ve tried to foist copyright,
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Hubble's Final Mission PIPE...
leading the highly skilled team of spacewalkers is veteran hubble astronaut John Grunsfeld this is John's third mission to the Hubble joining John for three of the spacewalks is rookie astronaut drew foist 'el another Hubble
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Quote examples
Peter York
British Journalist
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.
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Ravi Subramanian
Indian Author
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.
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David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
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Dean Wareham
American Musician
It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.
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Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
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Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean Statesman
We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
Quote examples
Peter York
British Journalist
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.
Quote examples
Ravi Subramanian
Indian Author
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.
Quote examples
David Ogilvy
English Businessman
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
Quote examples
Dean Wareham
American Musician
It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.
Quote examples
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.
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Dylan Moran
Irish Comedian
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
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Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean Statesman
We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
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