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huckster

[huhk-ster] / ˈhʌk stər /


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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Lon Chaney plays a huckster circus performer who pretends to have no arms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025

MyPillow huckster Mike Lindell, freshly shorn of his walrus mustache, tried to debate a 12-year-old .

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024

‘SHUCKED’ When the crop starts to fail in the small town of Cob County, an expert “corn doctor” arrives to help, but is he really a huckster?

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

I couldn’t defend myself, even against a portly old huckster like Samir.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The distrust is too bad, the hucksters too loud.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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