What's the difference between foister and roister?

Foister


Definition:

  • (n.) One who foists something surreptitiously; a falsifier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Susan Foister, co-curator of the show, Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance, described the disposal of 37 works in 1856 as a "surprising" and little-known story.
  • (2) According to Dr Susan Foister, the National Gallery's director of collections, the painting "shows Cranach at his best, when he was working at the Saxon court.
  • (3) Foister said that "there was an idea of what should be collected and what should be admired".

Roister


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
  • (n.) See Roisterer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Long before he first shrugged on Al Swearengen's stripy jacket and oiled his soup-straining moustache, McShane had always had his pick of cads and roister-doisters.
  • (2) Tories and their commentators roistered with delight at the non-shambles of Osborne's spending review.
  • (3) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
  • (4) (A 2007 survey for AA Legal Services of 2,600 elderly parents and adult children revealed that 70% of offspring fear that they will inherit only their roistering parents' debts .)
  • (5) A leadership election without him could all too easily be portrayed, both by his admirers and the party's opponents, as having no legitimacy: of playing Henry IV without Falstaff or, to be more exact, Prince Hal – the wayward roisterer who, by grace of state, is transformed into "this star of England".

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