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5 lettersPronunciation /fɔɪst/Part of speech verbSorted fiostStarts with FEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. insert surreptitiously or without warrant

Word origin

Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).

Used in a sentence

  • But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.
  • the Tale of Zayn al-Asnám is one of two which Galland repudiated, as having been foisted into his 8th volume without his knowledge
  • attempts to foist alleged grammatical “correctness” on native speakers of an “incorrect” dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control

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