| 单词 | foist |
| 释义 | foist (once / 8157 pages) v Did your parents foist your baby sister on you when they went out? It means they forced her on you. Anything — a person or object or idea — can be foisted if it's done by force upon an unwilling party. Foist used to imply a degree of deception rather than just brute force, but that's a meaning that's pretty much lost now: if something's foisted upon you, you know about it. The earlier meaning comes from an old Dutch term for palming a loaded die into a game. Today we call that cheating. WORD FAMILYfoist: foisted, foisting, foists USAGE EXAMPLESCertainly no amount of shame or self-respect will keep “Collateral Beauty” from foisting its own dubious con on the audience. Los Angeles Times(Dec 15, 2016) Some want to foist the responsibility on the very tech companies that started the revolution. Wall Street Journal(Dec 11, 2016) They appear, behave and bleed like humans do — a visual lie the series foisted on its observers. Salon(Dec 03, 2016) 1v to force onto another He foisted his work on me Hyper bring down, impose, inflict, visit impose something unpleasant 2v insert surreptitiously or without warrant Hyper enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in introduce |
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