Vocabulary Word
Word: foist
Definition: insert improperly; impose upon another by coercion; palm off; pass off as genuine or worthy; CF. fist
Definition: insert improperly; impose upon another by coercion; palm off; pass off as genuine or worthy; CF. fist
Sentences Containing 'foist'
If my esteemed neighbor, the State's ambassador, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of human rights in the Council Chamber, instead of being threatened with the prisons of Carolina, were to sit down the prisoner of Massachusetts, that State which is so anxious to foist the sin of slavery upon her sister--though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with her--the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of the following winter.
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