huckster

Lon Chaney plays a huckster circus performer who pretends to have no arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

MyPillow huckster Mike Lindell, freshly shorn of his walrus mustache, tried to debate a 12-year-old .

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

But preproduction is disrupted by downtrodden producer Brad Shlansky, a Long Island huckster who was forced to grow up fast and eventually ventured to Hollywood with his two sisters.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2023

The man may a huckster, a jaw-droppingly error-prone candidate, and, as his opponent for one of Pennsylvania’s Senate seats has reminded us many times, a New Jersey resident.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2022

I couldn’t defend myself, even against a portly old huckster like Samir.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The Strip was once a magical place where innocents like Dorothy flocked to get into trouble, often in encounters with sleight-of-hand hucksters like Professor Marvel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

In contrast Mr Gensler told the BBC in September that it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

He seems unaware that the public is starting to realize AI technology falls far short of the promises made by Silicon Valley hucksters.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

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

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

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

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 Morley, Henry

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 Moore, Edward A.

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

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

Incredibly, he wrote, Clay hadn’t been bragging, or huckstering; he had been “telling the truth all along.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2016

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