foist off
Example Sentences
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A margherita can be deprived of its silky, milky component should, say, a creamery try to foist off an inferior batch of mozzarella on an unsuspecting pizzeria.
From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2017
Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia.
From Time Magazine Archive
A few down- and-out Houstonians are even trying to foist off their homes as mini- detention centers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course, if you attempt to foist off a romance as silly as this one, developing it in a totally banal fashion, then you must believe that the public will accept almost anything.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in the same breath, he had allowed his former chief to foist off that dishonesty upon his own clean shoulders, and borne the detestable burden without demand for sympathy or claim for gratitude.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
