huckster

Example Sentences

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We are talking generational misery inflicted with the false promises and fake hope from the lying hucksters in Mr. Obama’s Democratic Party.

From Washington Times

This full-employment plan for kooks and hucksters gives new meaning to featherbedding.

From Washington Post

Predatory lending to members of the military is an area of growing concern for regulators and watchdogs; soldiers’ steady paychecks — and the financial naïveté of many young recruits — are a potent lure for hucksters.

From New York Times

Traveling huckster Hill, newly arrived in River City, Iowa, is selling his con — a kids’ band — by disparaging the game of pool.

From Washington Post

Sonny Barger, 83, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, died Wednesday at his home in California.

From Seattle Times