(v. t.) 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.
(n.) A foister; a sharper.
(n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under the cover of this administration’s constant cloud of chaos – some deliberately generated by Trump, much of it foisted upon him by his incompetence and avarice – this shared agenda is being pursued with methodical and unblinking focus.
(2) Promoters of the bill in Uganda, which gained independence from Britain in 1962, appealed to populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an "un-African", alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists.
(3) The danger is that we foist such fiction on young readers because we are convinced it is "good for them", and we risk putting them off for life.
(4) Transitioning is the product of a fundamental aspect of our humanity – gender – being foisted upon us over and over again from the time of our birth in a manner inconsistent with our own experience of our genders.
(5) The methodological problems in applying this approach, however, may lead to foisting upon clinical observation preconceived paradigms of pathogenesis.
(6) It’s a raw deal for food producers, who need the supermarkets to reach the public, but who can’t afford the terms of business that the supermarkets foist on them.” The extent of these contributions has come into the spotlight this year after Tesco admitted it had found a £263m black hole in its accounts relating to the way it booked payments from suppliers.
(7) As a key barometer for the mood of the NHS, this is entirely understandable, especially in years when one set of changes after another seemed to loom ahead, waiting to be foisted on a service which could only wait and hope it survived.
(8) Meanwhile, Nick Clegg – talking tough after his mauling last week – has now signalled he thinks it folly to foist purse strings on those family doctors who are unwilling or unable to take them.
(9) We need not be satisfied with staffing arrangements and practices that, largely for reasons of expediency and the lack of other models, were inherited from other healthcare agencies or foisted on us by federal bureaucrats and third party payers.
(10) The calibre of player vying to accompany Pogba in the centre remains open to debate, as question marks of varying weights hang like cartoon anvils over Morgan Schneiderlin, Daley Blind, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera and Michael Carrick, and, as Mourinho did not quite say this month , only a fool, or perhaps a recently deposed England manager, would attempt to foist a dwindling Wayne Rooney on United’s midfield.
(11) Fortunately, his attempt to foist his own rather ignorant and partial version of history on to the national curriculum was one of his many failures.
(12) But I'm not interested in anything else but foisting those sensibilities and writing books that concern the 21st-century.
(13) The vicar was a lovely man, but his wife obviously didn't want refugees foisted on her.
(14) The very people – the industrial millers and bakers – who foisted this problem on us are using it to make money in another sphere.” Rather than buying highly processed gluten-free bread products, Whitley advises finding a bakery “who you absolutely know is making their bread with proper fermentation” or learn to make your own.
(15) But these people have been written out of history: to listen to the independence debate, or to how Scotland has talked about itself since the early 80s, you might imagine that her governments – with their southern English, sharp-edged, supposedly fundamentally foreign ways – were foisted on Scotland entirely through English votes.
(16) Historians will one day describe the way our streets were covered with a flavoured polymer that we would suck and chew before spitting it out on to the pavement, slyly bunging it under a desk, or foisting it under a chair.
(17) I had been trapped in the politically correct negative view of the relay, the view that the cult of the torch was an invented tradition foisted on the Olympics by the Nazis in 1936 and that the 2012 relay was a tacky stunt for drumming up phoney enthusiasm for the London Games from an otherwise indifferent public.
(18) The central monument in the square was turned into a Maypole and a tent was foisted on top of it.
(19) That's why I don't send them to state school" – is offered as if it hasn't even occurred to her that she, like all parents, foists her ethics on to her children every single day, hoping they will grow up to live by them.
(20) Her argument about private schooling – "I don't think my children should have my feelings foisted upon them, and have to live with the consequences.
Genuine
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(2) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
(3) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
(4) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(5) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(6) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
(7) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
(8) These issues all need to be addressed before people feel like the economy is genuinely starting to recover.
(9) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
(10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(11) 17 genuine tumors were found (39%): 8 germ-cell tumors, 7 cystomas respectively cystadenomas and 2 tumors of the gonadal stroma.
(12) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
(13) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
(14) Speed's mother said she had watched again some television footage of her son before his death and realised his smile didn't seem genuine as "it didn't extend to his eyes".
(15) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
(16) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
(17) There were no significant differences between the effects of genuine and sham acupuncture either on exercise test variables or on subjective variables.
(18) The training effect represents a genuine adaptation to repeated exercise but is short lived.
(19) Furthermore, when compared with our recent findings with mouse bone marrow cells, the effects, their magnitude and concentration dependence imply genuine species differences in the responses of mice and rats to these hormones.
(20) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.