foist off
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To get rid of (something unwanted) by giving it to someone else.
Example Sentences
- "She was talking big, but the Haruhi of last year would've forced people to attend an explanatory lecture about the brigade, printed huge numbers of flyers, and foisted them off on absolutely everybody."
- "I used to think New Yorkers invented trends and foisted them off on a gullible nation but weren't themselves […]"
- "When Zeytuna didn't want to do her chores, she foisted them off on Lidya, who'd spent years being her caregiver and took over without a whisper of complaint."
- "Countries with export surpluses foisted them off by bounties or placed them through unilateral agreements."