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foist

/foist/US // fɔɪst //UK // (fɔɪst) //

造假,挫折,挫败,造谣

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably: to foist inferior merchandise on a customer.
    • : to bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently: to foist political views into a news story.

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Examples

  • It’s easier to sell the crap you make in your spare time, and you’re more likely to need the money than you might have been a few decades ago, when you could have just foisted it all on your friends.

  • They often saw those benefits as bribes to make up for the grueling expectations foisted on them.

  • “It’s going to require some important messaging to help people understand we’re not foisting the bad vaccine on you—there isn’t a bad vaccine that we would allow to stay in use,” Fernandez Lynch says.

  • Glenn Beck did it before, although the abstract noun he chose to foist on the nation was "honor."

  • Shame on John McCain—and every other Republican who says the Senate health deal would foist single-payer on the country.

  • Galley-foist may be the name of some dress of the period, so-called for its resemblance to the gaily bedecked Mayors-barge.

  • This is hardly a changeling story, as no attempt was made to foist a false child on the parent.

  • Even Latin, living Latin had not the network of rules they foist upon unfortunate school-children.

  • Me mudder wasn't built to stand de wear and tear, an' about de time I was foist chased off to school, she went out o' biz.

  • The part had been thrust on me one day, when Edward proposed to foist the House of Lords on our small republic.