huckster
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The FBI warns investors about the methods scammers use to huckster successful, smart people.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lon Chaney plays a huckster circus performer who pretends to have no arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
He doesn’t even believe half of what he says because he’s a huckster and B.S. artist.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 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
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
He told the BBC in September it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 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
After Barney’s sudden death of stroke in 1969, Betty became more and more involved with conspiracy theorists and New Age hucksters.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2023
Like Mamet characters, they populated an America that had never existed, a kid’s idea of sharpies and hucksters and underworld life.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
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
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
What wilt thou pay, thou huckstered That I let thee live another year?
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
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
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