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What is another word for Foisting?

Pronunciation: [fˈɔ͡ɪstɪŋ] (IPA)

Foisting means to force something onto someone without their consent or knowledge. Some synonyms of foisting include imposing, thrusting, inflicting, pushing, inserting, and planting. These words convey the idea that somebody is attempting to pass off an unwanted or unnecessary thing onto another person, without giving them a choice in the matter. Other synonyms of foisting can include burdening, loading, unloading, palming off, and fobbing off. All of these words suggest that the person doing the foisting is acting without integrity or respect for the other person's needs or wishes, and that their actions are likely to be resented or resisted.
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He felt as if he were an accomplice in Foisting this wretched music-hall stuff on the public.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Then Tsaddik remembers that even children urged their offering upon him, and concludes that some urchin or other contrived to make it "stick;" and he anxiously disclaims any share in the "Foisting" this crude fragment of existence on the course of so great a life.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
I am accused of Foisting on the public a marvellous account of the eclipse, which my own negatives contradict; but I shall have no difficulty in shewing conclusively that Mr. De la Rue has made a blunder, when he says that "there is evidence of the telescope having moved, or, perhaps, followed irregularly."
"Canadian Eclipse Party 1869"
Commander E. D. Ashe

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