[
US
/ˈhəkstɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈʌkstɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈʌkstɐ/ ]
VERB
-
wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
Let's not haggle over a few dollars - sell or offer for sale from place to place
NOUN
- a person who writes radio or tv advertisements
- a seller of shoddy goods
How To Use huckster In A Sentence
- I don't think it's necessary for us to huckster the date.
- Self-reflection and humility are not marketable commodities among hucksters.
- Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
- A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $20,000.
- All through the winter, the perturbation of the little huckster's mind remained unallayed; but there came a day in early spring which set his questionings at rest. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
- After all, no greedy hucksters could steal or plunder them.
- Thousands of TV commercials go on their merry way, oblivious to dire circumstances outside the calculus of huckstering.
- I cringed at the hucksters on the street, who had a negative impact on the brand.
- We prepare by being wise and discerning about the false claims of religious hucksters. Christianity Today
- Wouldn't this make him a set-up for an oily huckster who sold lame horses with a false hump?
