The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foist \Foist\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Foisting.] [Cf. OD. vysten to fizzle, D. veesten, E. fizz, fitchet, bullfist.] 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.
Lest negligence or partiality might admit or foist in
abuses and corruption.
--R. Carew.
When a scripture has been corrupted . . . by a
supposititious foisting of some words in.
--South.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of foist English)
Usage examples of "foisting".
The captain was still likely to question his foisting eleven human survivors on her, but she’d blow her tubes if he tried to impose an alien pet.
You’d look mighty blue if you could succeed in foisting that charge on to Lady Theresa!
And what I think of my Lord Desford’s conduct in foisting her on to my lady is something I wouldn’t demean myself by divulging.
Now it seemed a pleasant diversion from the remorseless demands for introspection that Sharee insisted on foisting upon me.
He raided only when the chances of success were assured and the potential profits very high, and he was very good at foisting the blame on other bands for his depredations.
After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body’s final trick is simply to absent itself.
And they liked the idea of foisting off a recalcitrant on a foreigner.