Definition of Foist

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Definition of Foist

Foist

A light and fast-sailing ship.

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.

A foister; a sharper.

A trick or fraud; a swindle.

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Foist Quotations

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.
David Ogilvy

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.
Robert Mugabe

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.
Dylan Moran

Foist Translations

foist in Italian is attaccare
foist in Spanish is aherir
foist in Swedish is smuggla

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