huckster

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

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

The man may a huckster, a jaw-droppingly error-prone candidate, and, as his opponent for one of Pennsylvania’s Senate seats has reminded us many times, a New Jersey resident.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2022

I became a huckster like the ones that had fascinated me.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

In contrast Mr Gensler told the BBC in September that it was an industry “rife with fraud and hucksters and grifters”.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

Guest: David Gilbert, reports on disinformation, online extremism and election hucksters for WIRED.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 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

As a result, low-level hucksters or those peddling unproven treatments often don’t get as much attention.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

The hucksters cried above the traffic sounds and I seemed to hear them from a distance, unsure of what they said.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

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

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

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 Morley, Henry

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 Moore, Edward A.

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

Four reputationally dinged coaching greats were here in the Midwest Region, four semi-soiled huckstering representatives of the system, in Carolina’s Roy Williams, Auburn’s Bruce Pearl, Kentucky’s John Calipari and Houston’s Kelvin Sampson.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2019

All during June we get Milken, a former federal fraud felon huckstering for cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2018

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