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huckster

[huhk-ster] / ˈhʌk stər /


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The FBI warns investors about the methods scammers use to huckster successful, smart people.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

It turned out that Neumann was a world-class huckster and the company couldn’t justify such a big valuation, and WeWork aborted the IPO.

From Slate Nov. 8, 2023

He is the maximum huckster, in the tradition of American hucksterism.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2023

The show’s theme is California agriculture, its biblical title framing the Golden State as part fertile and utopian paradise, part huckster marketing dystopia.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2023

I became a huckster like the ones that had fascinated me.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

He told the BBC in September it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.

From BBC Dec. 5, 2024

Stem cell hucksters would undoubtedly prefer for that cautionary language to be removed.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2024

More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2024

The TFU tale is somewhat familiar, with lovelorn people taken in by new-age hucksters claiming to have the answers that have been eluding them.

From Salon Nov. 11, 2023

The hucksters cried above the traffic sounds and I seemed to hear them from a distance, unsure of what they said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

Now was the time to unlock the sealed fountain of Royal bounty, which had been infamously monopolised and huckstered, and to let it flow at large upon the whole people. 

From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Henry Morley

What wilt thou pay, thou huckstered That I let thee live another year?

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

She would have huckstered around the neighborhood, and made a little income while it lasted; but now she had no heart for it.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 by Various

These loaves, which were huckstered along the lines by venders from Richmond, it must be understood, were not full-size, but a compromise between a loaf and a roll.

From The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson by Edward A. Moore

District Judge Nina Wang about the huckstering, arguing that it was proof that Lindell wasn’t taking the matter seriously enough.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2025

All during June we get Milken, a former federal fraud felon huckstering for cancer.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2018

Set aside his bluster, his speechifying and huckstering and habit of taking five sentences to express an idea when one would suffice.

From Washington Post Nov. 9, 2017

Skewering Madison Avenue for 60 Years FOR six decades, a magazine has been putting the “Mad” in Madison Avenue by lampooning — and frequently harpooning — the huckstering of the advertising industry.

From New York Times Oct. 28, 2012

But the drivers seemed somehow menacing to her, with their fake friendliness and huckstering offers of a ride.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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