WORD: FOIST
MEANING:
1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet ... is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" (J.D. Salinger).
2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss.
3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
4. impose, finagle, force upon
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shouldn't try to foist views on each other, PM tells opposition
2. He foisted his work on me
PRONOUNCE:
foist - फॉइस्ट
LINK: FOIST
MEANING:
1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet ... is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" (J.D. Salinger).
2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery: They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss.
3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
4. impose, finagle, force upon
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Shouldn't try to foist views on each other, PM tells opposition
2. He foisted his work on me
PRONOUNCE:
foist - फॉइस्ट
LINK: FOIST
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