huckster

Example Sentences

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Buss is one part business man and two parts huckster, over-leveraging his real estate and cash assets to buy a team nobody takes seriously in a league that's lost its relevance.

From Salon

More than that, perhaps we love finding hucksters out.

From Salon

Last year, Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, making his company’s message clear, said that the advertising industry had become an ecosystem of “trackers and hucksters just looking to make a quick buck.”

From New York Times

Ripe for the next huckster that comes along, probably.

From Seattle Times

She doesn’t enter the film until halfway through, when Bradley Cooper’s carnival huckster, Stan, catches her eye in his nightclub mind-reading act, and the two begin scheming together.

From Seattle Times