(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.
Pickpocket
Definition:
(n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Example Sentences:
(1) I've been mistaken for a parent, a pickpocket, and even, God forbid, an SUV owner, and I've always been able to brush it off.
(2) Moments later it was Ronaldo's run and cross that caused Gaël Clichy problems as Di Maria looked to pickpocket him, as the pattern of Real dominance continued.
(3) Documents published by the Hillsborough independent panel relating to the Sun's April 1989 "The Truth" front page splash, which falsely alleged that drunken Liverpool fans had urinated on police and pickpocketed the dead: 1.
(4) Apart from the sweat and steam they bring into the chapel, the sheer number of visitors has been criticised for giving the space the feel of a busy train station, complete with pickpockets.
(5) We need this type of framework to stop the government of the day pickpocketing the foreign aid budget at their will,” acting Greens leader Adam Bandt said.
(6) One sub-category that showed a 6% rise was personal thefts, such as pickpocketing and mobile phone snatches.
(7) Excluding the foreigner-specific crimes, Germans committed three-quarters of offences recorded in 2015, but crimes by non-Germans were up 12.8%, including document forgery, pickpocketing and home burglaries, De Maizière said.
(8) After one of his interceptions – featuring the pickpocketing of Kolarov – Sissoko charged 50 yards only to spare Joe Hart by shooting too early.
(9) MPs on the all-parliamentary party group on Gypsies, Travellers and Roma sounded the alarm about provocative language as a prominent Tory council leader suggested some Roma are planning to come to the UK to "pickpocket and aggressively beg" following the end of labour market controls on the two eastern European countries.
(10) Lee Cattermole dallied in possession and was pickpocketed by Álvaro Negredo.
(11) Romanians and Bulgarians, on the other hand, are today's "wretched of the earth", described by Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun as variably corrupt, as rapists and as pickpockets.
(12) Police in Hamburg said some aspects of the attackers’ methods were akin to those of skilled pickpockets operating in the city.
(13) The main true opposition political parties stood united behind the young people who instigated and led the revolution, and petty crimes such as harassment and pickpocketing – which had been at epidemic levels in Cairo – all but disappeared throughout the revolution.
(14) An initial internal police report released to the Kölner Stadt Anzeiger said that among an estimated 100 men questioned by police over their behaviour during the evening there were not only trickster pickpockets typical to the area – so-called ‘Äntanzer’ or ‘waltzers’ – who dance with their victims, unbalance them and use the opportunity to rob them, but also newly arrived refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
(15) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
(16) "The teachers support us," they continue, speaking into a bicycle-powered public address system, which just about rises above an announcement to watch out for pickpockets.
(17) We even get pickpockets in here, just like at a street market," he added.
(18) "But I think the fear that everybody faces is those that come to Britain and either fail to find jobs and therefore fall back on our welfare system, or those who deliberately come here to pickpocket and aggressively beg.
(19) However, the annual crime figures show a 2% rise in some types of property crime, especially in unattended personal property, such as garden sheds, pickpocketing and thefts of commercial materials, particularly metal.
(20) Bresson in films like Pickpocket or A Man Escaped watches souls striving for redemption; Hitchcock in Psycho or Vertigo explores the incurably neurotic mind.