huckster

Example Sentences

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The TFU tale is somewhat familiar, with lovelorn people taken in by new-age hucksters claiming to have the answers that have been eluding them.

From Salon

Like any religious huckster, though perhaps a shade more honest, Willie is a master of emotional manipulation and rhetorical force.

From Los Angeles Times

A place where the gaslighter, conman, hustler, and huckster can combine all his deceptive talents and do his thing as only the Donald can.

From Salon

Denial has been co-opted too by contrarian figureheads, extolled by hucksters whose entire schtick is to define themselves entirely in opposition to the mainstream.

From Scientific American

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

From Salon