She saw that in all probability one of the greatest captains of the age would be foisted that very day into the place and power of her son, the king of France, under the formidable title of lieutenant-general of the kingdom.
He who could execute hardly at all in paint, and whose verse is Italian, though the author wrote and spoke no language but English, foisted the character of his genius upon all the poetry and painting of his generation.
It is bad enough that we should have German princes foisted upon us, but German statues are worse.
Aldus' painstaking textual corrections were slavishly copied: even his title-page was stolen, and the whole immoral production foisted on the public as a genuine example from Venice, and at a little more than half the cost.
One should expect, when they were poets, they would at least have taken care of the rhimes, and not foisted in what has nothing to answer it.
Well then, go you into hell] Of the two next speeches Mr. Warburton says, All this impious nonsense thrown to the bottom is the players, and foisted in without rhyme or reason.
Now the three paragraphs foisted into William's will would be the kind of paragraphs that would complete John's confession; but they are not in confession.
This song is in emotional sympathy with Ferdinand, and in the truest sense dramatic, not a piece of pretty verse foisted in to add to the entertainment.
Warburton blushed to think that such "nonsense" could be foisted on Shakespeare's text.
The first foistedin more than thirty pieces by Robert Fletcher, the translator of Martial.
Meantime the poor child who had been foisted upon the republicans was drugged and died, and Dessault, his medical attendant, died also--the suspicion being that both were poisoned.
In logic and psychology, signs and language are usually foistedin somewhere as an appendix, without any trouble being taken to display their necessity and systematic place in the economy of intelligence.
Yet if an effort of thought could be concentrated on cardinal issues, and less padding of conventional and traditional detail were foisted in, much might thereby be done to make detailed research fruitful.
It seemed to me a poor story on the face of it, though I did not then know how these things are made up out of whole cloth, as it were, and foisted upon children.
But as easily when there is neither art nor beauty in such furnishings, are they foisted upon the purchasing housewife.
Fopperies foistedinto his Narrative"--proof enough that Carrington did not write The Lancashire Levite Rebuked.
Moreover, it looks very much as if they were downright fabrications foisted upon the public by a man who had already in 1700 made to order an unhistorical pamphlet.
More than once in the history of witch literature absolutely imaginary stories were foisted upon the public.
And this leads us right round again to consider the "disabilities foisted upon sex conditions.
The disabilities "foisted upon sex" would be felt first of all by the wives and mothers who are most interested in the laws.
Then it was I learned that Christian Science was a deliberate fraud foisted upon mankind by Mrs. Eddy in the name of religion for the mere purpose of extorting money from credulous people.
And even since the edition of February, 1908, another edition, with only one line added, has been foisted upon the faithful.
It was foisted upon that which had already a venerable antiquity.
This detail of itself should have sufficed to have demonstrated to Proctor, or any other astronomer, that the astrological week had been foisted upon the already existing week of the Jews.
You must try to be, in short, the Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles that wretched penny-a-liner has foisted upon these innocent people.
Without attempting to make an ex-parte statement, I may say that I practically foisted myself upon Melun.
Act surreptitiously foisted into the Statute Book by the prelates in 1382, like the following, 'And herfore make them statutis stable as a stoon; and thei geten graunt of knyghtis to confirmen hem.
Of these one was The Memoirs of a Lady of Quality, so oddly foisted by Smollett into the third volume of his Peregrine Pickle.
One of the biggest humbugs ever foisted on the world has been thatfoisted by Jewish propagandists, principally on the American public, with regard to the temper and genius of the truly Russian people.
It is true that occasionally a keen observer has asserted that the recent debauch of luxury and extravagance was not due to the natural impulses of the people at all, but was systematically stimulated, foisted upon them by design.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
