huckster

The FBI warns investors about the methods scammers use to huckster successful, smart people.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

He is the maximum huckster, in the tradition of American hucksterism.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2023

The show’s theme is California agriculture, its biblical title framing the Golden State as part fertile and utopian paradise, part huckster marketing dystopia.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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

He told the BBC in September it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024

TikTok’s algorithmic For You page sure seems like it’s really good at widely promulgating the ideas from this group of hucksters.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 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

Stem cell hucksters would undoubtedly prefer for that cautionary language to be removed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have watched him in other sports, huckstering his prodigies, heard him braying and taking credit for their gifts, as if he personally engineered their molecular DNA.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2017

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