huckster

Example Sentences

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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

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

The musical, which finds laughs in a worrisome alliance between a hick and a huckster, features a score by a pair of well-regarded Nashville songwriters: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2022

A watermelon huckster stood in the shade beside his truck, holding up a long slice of orange-mealed melon, crying his wares with hoarse appeals to nostalgia, memories of childhood, green shade and summer coolness.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison