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foist — I verb apply pressure, beguile, coerce, compel, compel to accept, constrain, deceive, fob off on, force, force upon, gull, impose, impose by fraud, inflict, insert surreptitiously, palm off, palm off fraudulently, pass off as genuine, put in… … Law dictionary
foist — [v] force upon compel to accept, fob off, impose, insert fraudulently, palm off, pass off, pull a fast one*, ram down one’s throat*, sneak in; concept 14 … New thesaurus
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