Force unfairly (on)

Usage examples of foist.

She had even tried to lure him into a kiss, but he had smoothly dodged her enticements, repeatedly foisting her off on Acer Loring.

Lord Bute, when he paid his secret visits to her -for it was not to be expected that they would give those up but the old Duchess of Wolfenbiittel was the most disagreeable woman she had ever known, and everyone was aware that she had refused her daughter for George, although his grandfather had tried to foist the girl on to him.

Nor must they foist in a syllable or clip one of the verse, but must enounce firmly and repeat what is set down for them in due order.

Should one parent succeed in foisting the obligation of parental care onto the other parent and then going off in search of a new sex partner, then the foister will have advanced her or his genetic interests at the expense of the abandoned parent.

The foister will really promote his or her selfish evolutionary goals by deserting his or her mate and offspring.

And then Lord Chavaise called for a stamping rhythm with timbales and finger drums, and I danced with his lover from Eglantine House, the agile youth who had tumbled for us, and I kept the rhythm and was grateful for the lessons Delaunay had foisted upon me.

Cully had explained, because he was the least useful knight of a live sword that the Order had ever known, and while the abbot had not come out and admitted that openly, Cully said, interspersing his comments with common words that were as unknightly as unknightly could be, that was why Sir Guy had been foisted on Cully.

We wasted a ton of time arguing for continued funding, foisting off newshounds who wanted this whole thing to be a media extravaganza instead of an anthropological experiment, and just plain surviving from day to day.

Tabini, not Tai and Moni, God knew what he would figure about glum-faced servants Banichi and Jago foisted off on hi but that was going to be another long effort.

I refused to serve another of these plaguy wanderers you are always foisting upon me?

He and the professor of so-called social sciences Cortes who foists the same predigested pap on our intelligent young students to stop them from saving themselves would be betteroffdead.

Not a simpering, foolish bone in her body, unlike most of the young women foisted upon him these days.

The demonstrators, who foisted pamphlets on carloads of incoming tourists, belonged to Operation Rescue National, an antiabortion group that is branching out to combat homosexuality.

Obeah to that region, I might have guessed at the very moment of my arrival at Bayou-all, when I first heard the grotesque name that had been foisted on the Gooch daughter.

Also it shows why expensive boondoggles like Tunipah, aimed at supporting this kind of habit as well as making extortionate profits, are foisted on an unsuspecting public.