Foist

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–verb (used with object) 

1. to force upon or impose fraudulently or unjustifiably (usually fol. by on or upon): to foist inferior merchandise [on] a customer. 

2. to bring, put, or introduce surreptitiously or fraudulently (usually fol. by in or into): to foist political views [into] a news story.  





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foist, fob (vv.)   

 

Foist combines with the prepositions on, off on, upon, and off, meaning "to pass off as something else, to introduce sneakily" and "to pass off as true what is false," as in She foisted some excellent [forgeries] of Impressionist paintings on [off on, upon] the galleries that year. 



Fob off means essentially the same thing, "to pass off something fake as genuine” (He was trying to fob off some [fool’s] gold as gold), "to deceive by means of a trick" (She succeeded in fobbing her customers off onto a much more expensive appliance than the one advertised; She succeeded in fobbing it off onto her customers), and "to put off or avoid what is not welcome," as in When we called again, they fobbed us off with some excuse or other.





　

For Danny, however, loathing of Judaism isn't a political choice but an overwhelming emotion that defines his very being. 



When he agrees to speak with a journalist, Danny derides even the most eminent Jews -- Marx, Freud and Einstein -- for having foisted "communism, infantile sexuality and the atom bomb" [upon] the world. 



But the writer has discovered Danny's secret -- that he's Jewish himself -- which Danny has long since rationalized but the potential exposure of which obviously threatens his position in neo-fascist circles.





comeuppance

abscond

buccaneer

usurp

that her "real" mother has been [usurped] by an impostor, and her father [subverted].

The magazine usurped [copyrighted] material.  

plunder 

despoliation

The despoliation of Moreno's grave, clear-eyed [child] of nature is the movie's emotional crux.



lsehood

a statement distorts or suppresses the truth, 

in order to deceive

to tell a falsehood about one's ancestry in order to [gain] acceptance. 

fib 

minor falsehood

"I told a fib about my [age]," Little Tom said.

She told director Kimberly Peirce that, like her character, she was also 21 and came from Lincoln, Nebraska. But she was [fibbing], 

bamboozle

Anna is continually [bamboozled] by the Trans-Siberians, a tribe whose every pleasantry [carries] a threat.

skulduggery

bribery, [graft], and other such skulduggery.  

deluge

delude

In the novel’s close notice Frank is a deluded, dissipated [bore] who imagines himself

mocked the witches' prophecies which [deluded] poor Macbeth and set things right for the final curtain. 



bogus

spurious, sham

what Jefferson was saying was, "Hey! we left this England place cause it was bogus. So if we don't get some cool rules ourselves... pronto, we'll just be bogus too."

Sham