Peter York

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

British Journalist

Ravi Subramanian

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very high filters and don't take to it. At other times, parents simply don't know what books to select for their children and end up giving books that aren't appropriate.

Indian Author

David Ogilvy

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.

English Businessman

Dean Wareham

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

American Musician

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.

American Judge

Dylan Moran

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

Irish Comedian

Robert Mugabe

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Zimbabwean Statesman

Foist implies deception or force. It carries an underlying sense of wrongdoing or trickery.

Negative Connotation

Used when someone pressures another into accepting something undesired, often in social or work settings.

Social Interaction

Foist doesn't always mean openly forced; it can be done in a sneaky or subtle manner.

Subtle Pressure

 than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world -- have evaded us in our digital spaces. We’ve tried to foist copyright,

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