Thesaurus / huckstering
FEEDBACK- haggle
- barter
- chaffer
- huckster
- negotiate
- palter
- trade
- buy and sell
- cut a deal
- hammer out a deal
- work out a deal
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How to use huckstering in a sentence
The huckstering spirit penetrates the whole language, all relations are expressed in business terms, in economic categories.
THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING-CLASS IN ENGLAND IN 1844FREDERICK ENGELSSubmit to it, Palmon; let something be abated of your due, as if you were a-huckstering winter blankets and white counterpanes.
STUDIES IN THE POETRY OF ITALY, I. ROMANFRANK JUSTUS MILLERThe rose garden of the god unconquered in battle was exchanged for a very shoddy and huckstering paradise.
THE HALF-HEARTEDJOHN BUCHANPersons who have been used to a petty, huckstering way of life cannot enlarge their apprehensions to a notion of anything better.
TABLE-TALKWILLIAM HAZLITTIt is a relief to turn from so painful a subject, even though we descend to the petty, huckstering politics of the English court.
HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND, VOL. 1 OF 3HENRY THOMAS BUCKLEAnd now all thy memorial dynasties end in the huckstering rule of some thirty unknown and anonymous jobbers!
SYBILBENJAMIN DISRAELIBut it was only the puny huckstering of the little theatres which offended him.
RICHARD WAGNER HIS LIFE AND HIS DRAMASW. J. HENDERSONThe sort of huckstering contest that went on between them was as follows.
THE HISTORIES OF POLYBIUS, VOL. II (OF 2)POLYBIUSAll along the south faade, print and cook shops were seen, and small huckstering went on unheeded.
THE STORY OF PARISTHOMAS OKEYA true book does not go about advertising itself, huckstering for souls, arranging its greatness small enough.
THE LOST ART OF READINGGERALD STANLEY LEE