foists

Verb

foist (third-person singular simple present foists, present participle foisting, simple past and past participle foisted)

1. (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
   • But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
2. (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.
   • I am, of course, perfectly aware of how old men try to foist on the public the decay of their intellects and all the rest of their senile shortcomings as valuable qualities, the possession of which gives them special authority.1933 August, [George] Bernard Shaw, The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture, London: Constable & Co, →OCLC, page 11
3. (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
   • foist costly and valueless products on the public1969, Jonathan Spivak, “Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry”, in The Wall Street Journal

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