foist

• I'd often wondered what kind of parent would foist a name like Shelley on a Yetminster girl, but her mum and dad had died the year before I met her, killed on the M3 north of Winchester by a lorry driver busy arguing on his mobile phone. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
• Translation: We need to give our troops the numbers and gear they need, not the gilded garbage defense-industry cartels foist upon us -- on loan-shark terms. —  Latest Articles
• Attempting to foist Lisbon on 2 nations that rejected it may bring it closer. —  Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52
• It's an instant word of mouth opportunity, provided you approach the situation in a helpful way instead of just trying to foist your product on people. —  chrisbrogan.com
• But it was that decade's version of "wealth creation," and it is the concept of "wealth creation" in terms of the market value of debt-financed asset prices that Alan Greenspan would foist on the United States in the 1990s to convince it that an asset bubble was the path to postindustrial wealth, not the road to debt serfdom. —  GlobalResearch.ca

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