huckster
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Lon Chaney plays a huckster circus performer who pretends to have no arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
“These things mattered, and these are issues which are still relevant today,” said Darryl M. Bell, who played the Hillman huckster Ron Johnson.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
What can anyone expect from a huckster, who will peddle anything and anyone to line his pockets?
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 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
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
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
More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.
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
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
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 Moore, Edward A.
What wilt thou pay, thou huckstered That I let thee live another year?
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William
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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