How To Use Huckster In A Sentence
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I don't think it's necessary for us to huckster the date.
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Self-reflection and humility are not marketable commodities among hucksters.
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Too often, the most famous members of the profession become preoccupied by their own personalities, generating flashy images and huckstering iconic trademarks.
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A huckster offered to sell Carnegie the formula for guaranteed success for $20,000.
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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
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After all, no greedy hucksters could steal or plunder them.
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Thousands of TV commercials go on their merry way, oblivious to dire circumstances outside the calculus of huckstering.
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I cringed at the hucksters on the street, who had a negative impact on the brand.
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We prepare by being wise and discerning about the false claims of religious hucksters.
Christianity Today
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Wouldn't this make him a set-up for an oily huckster who sold lame horses with a false hump?
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The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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We prepare by being wise and discerning about the false claims of religious hucksters.
Christianity Today
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Nearly a century ago, for instance, radio was a new grassroots phenomenon that responded to community needs without huckstering the listeners.
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To add to the incessant cacophony of all the usual hucksters and souvenir traders, the pilgrims and the clergy, the temple is also still being built.
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Hucksterbee's own beliefs, like that dinosaurs and people were cotemporaneous and that God created the Earth 8,000 years ago, should next come under scrutiny.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Huckabee: "Don't Mormons Believe That Jesus And The Devil Are Brothers?"
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And it's no better to lose your hard-earned money to a credentialed huckster than to an out-and-out con man.
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Another pulled toffee - at least in its classic form - is Irish yellowman, a sweet still often sold at fairs by hucksters proclaiming its supposedly health-giving properties.
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This makes them easy pickings for religious hucksters, who continually say the most ridiculous things and get away with it only because their audience isn't bright enough to think it through for themselves.
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Tommy uses every trick in the book to catch his man: dressing as a rodeo clown, shilling prizes as a slick Vegas huckster, or pretending to be a backwoods hick, Tommy has all the right moves.
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Here professionals and housewives discard their workaday images and become hucksters offering the output of their hobbies.
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Nearby, hucksters sell postcards of the skyline, in which the towers remain shiningly intact.
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Consumers seeking relief from phone hucksters shouldn't be sold a bill of goods by their government.
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This mistake has led them at best into errors of judgment and distortion of fact and at worst into academic hucksterism.
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When Luther, in the domain of religion, characterized as unevangelical the conception of merit and reward, and energetically banished the huckster-spirit from religious feeling, he opened to the
Gems (?) of German Thought
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But this word does not apply to them, even if they are guilty of the kind of flimflam that would send common hucksters to prison.
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The huckster advertises an attractive item-an appliance, aluminum siding, a new kitchen-at an astonishingly low price. That's the bait, and consumers predictably rise to it.
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Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster.
Rational Review
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Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells?
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Ad Reinhardt publicly referred to Barnett Newman as "the avant-garde-huckster-handicraftsman and educational shopkeeper" and castigated his "transcendental nonsense.
Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists
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There should be high profile Indonesian culture and trade expos at major cities in the west, shamelessly huckstering for this country.
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So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger.
Boing Boing
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They tried to huckster red socks to me.
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From the start, negotiations over water have been rife with miscalculations, poor planning and plain old huckstering.
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The only thing the hucksters donit claim colloidal silver can treat is argyria, an irreversible blue-gray skin condition caused by the ingestion of silver.
- Boing Boing
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In 1880, the Federal census reported 2,690 commercial travelers, hucksters, and peddlers based in Chicago - 98 percent of whom were men.
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When you put it that way, the street-level huckster almost sounds more honorable than the executive.
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His wife was weighing huckstery with her back to the counter, so that she was not aware of his presence.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Al Sharpton - It says alot about the Democratic party that this race-baiting huckster is even allowed on stage, let alone taken seriously.
Balloon Juice » 2004 » January
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We're accustomed to facing a gauntlet of hucksters when we sit in front of a TV set.
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You have thousands of members cancelling their memberships, and that anger is only going to grow as people realize they got huckstered by this bill.
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Nearby, hucksters sell postcards of the skyline, in which the towers remain shiningly intact.
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Internet hucksters use wild colors, eye-popping images, and jazzy sounds to draw your attention to their ads, trying to get you to reveal your credit card number and buy stuff.
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It is a rare thing for a reviewer to find himself in the role of evangelist or huckster, but that is where I must begin.
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Barkley, even, was reserved, way too quiet in comparison to typical Chuckster standards.
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It turns out that they're hucksters, though - they go to improbably lengths to set up hoax monsters that would earn respect from Disneyworld's imagineers.
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The huckster is a very good and formidable candidate.
ARG: Hillary Barely Ahead Of Obama In NH, Before Iowa Caucus Was Held
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A clear understanding of what is meant by the word huckster is crucial.
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However, there are many charlatans, hucksters, and snake-oil sellers among the New Age field, in part because it is so easy to fool people when you can't produce hard physical evidence of the truth of your assertions.
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Their role is more significant (in a couple of senses) than hucksters whose interest in the lives of other people is limited to an opportunity to ply their craft.
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But simply put, he is a huckster, the antithesis of the anti-politician, and someone with limited green credentials, to say the least.
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Every genius, promoter and huckster wanted a piece of the action.
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When I've managed to get to a con, I'll end up going to some of the panels and the movies, but I also spend a great deal of time at something which, in my heyday, was called the huckster's room but is now more commonly known as the dealer's room, window shopping.
Why Con?
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Now the red swaying lanterns on the low, wide bumboats come on, making some minor huckster transformation from tawdry to quaint.
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His use of the unclassical and perhaps anachronistic word "huckster" shows us both what he takes from and brings to Kabir's poetry, which is to allow his own poetic mind to take off from the basic message and conceptual frame of Kabir's Hindi lines, without hankering after a word-for-word fidelity.
When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
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Comets have always offered rich pickings for hucksters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ogilvy was addicted to words that the straight-talking huckster-style admen of the day would blink at.
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In that street there's a man who hucksters boiled corn.
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You go to war with the best public relations huckster you can have: the White House announced last week that a Washington public relations executive, with no experience in military affairs, was the nominee for the post.
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Combe made this flim-flam popular in the United Kingdom even Queen Victoria went for it, and in 1838 he lecture-toured America where the theory was already being huckstered by brothers Lorenzo and Orson Fowler.
American Connections
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Those regulated and unregulated hucksters who use these devices are, simply put, ripping off the public.
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In 3-D, Dolby 0.5 and 24 MP; on furious faces and hateful placards, in frustrated screams plus shallow stentorian hate mongers/hucksters/rainmakers/preying mantises up close and personal.
Jane-Howard Hammerstein: "You Can't Handle the Truth" ... Col. Jessup (a/k/a Jack Nicholson)
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It reads more like a huckster selling long-life elixir at a rural county fair.
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Not a few are able to live as frauds and hucksters who pad their resumes with myriad non-existent accomplishments and credentials.
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Predatory lenders huckstered complicated loans to folks, with no stake in whether they had any chance to repay them.
Bail Out on this Bailout-- Join Rev. Jesse Jackson at US Treasury Protest Friday Sept. 26 12 noon
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ADHD has been so huckstered, a YMCA ad spoofs it with the headline, "Before Video Games, Before Facebook, Before Ritalin, There Was Basketball.
Martha Rosenberg: Do These Drug Ads Offend You?
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So, although he will presumably be ‘shocked’ to learn it, his military-technological huckstering appalled the old general.
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To opine for 427 words (yes, I counted) about the war's deep costs to our economy and the concordant need to limit it's impact and then try to get away with redefining your promise to as little as a two-percent cost reduction qualifies as used-car hucksterism of the lowest sort -- the kind that tricks people into a product that kills lots of people and leaves the survivors broke.
Derrick Crowe: Who's the Huckster for This High-Interest War?
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I'd refer him to an honorable scientist who fights against hucksters like those invovled in climategate.
An Ominous Story
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The West has lost it's confidence in assimilation, of self-sufficiency, so immigrants learn to celebrate their indigenous culture (which was so wonderful they had to leave it), to demand various rights, and glom onto racial and ethnic hucksters who make a living off the guilt of European suburbanites.
Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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These kinds of electronic spaces seem to be far removed from the image of the bustling, huckstering Bartholomew Fair, but it seems that many scholars in the Humanities confuse them.
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What good do you do anyone by writing verses, getting cash for silly slanders, peddling iambs as a huckster peddles trash?
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If you hear any other coach claim his player deserves consideration, you know that coach is shamefully huckstering or making sure his guy gets on an All-American team.
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This bland 30-second spot stood out in the cluttered huckster's marketplace of morning television because of all the elements that were missing.
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But Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales.
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His huckstering abilities soon ingratiated him to Joe Frazier, the world heavyweight champion, whom he accompanied to Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973, when Frazier defended his crown against Foreman.
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Hucksters flaunted their specious cure-ails on posters, broadsides, and other printed formats.
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Yeah, there's a carny barker, but there's also kind of a desperate, Willy Loman-like quality to my endless hucksterism.
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It was evident, also, that the proprietor dealt in huckstery, as he saw a shop in which there was bacon, meal, oats, eggs, potatoes, bread, and such other articles as are usually to be found in small establishments of the kind.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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They are huckstering over the price of the rifle.
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Littlebody grumbles of indignity - ‘the huckstering / - jumping around in your green top hat ‘- but the laws laid down so long ago hold true and he offers up his purse of gold.’
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Nowadays a hawker is a pedlar, and it has been assumed, without sufficient evidence, that the word is of the same origin as huckster.
The Romance of Names
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So long as a cadger [from the Scandinavian word for "huckster"] is generous in turn (though not necessarily in kind), he ought not to be considered a deadbeat, freeloader, or sponger.
Boing Boing
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Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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In 1862, Huntington worked New York, Washington, and Boston, spending three days in New York, two in Boston, and two in the capital, where he “borrowed, hocked and huckstered.”
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
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Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster.
Rational Review
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New ordinances banned boys from throwing rocks, female hucksters from selling food door-to-door, and people of color from assembling after curfew.
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You take away the impression that you've been spun a shaggy parrot story told by a sideshow huckster, albeit with attention-grabbing skill.
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The staff is smart, attentive, and blessedly innocent of the huckstering and bum's rushing that often characterize staples of the tourist circuit.
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Of course, it won't surprise me if some huckster manages to get the two women to square off again.
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Folks, this is a very old stunt, used by carnival hucksters for generations to convince gullible victims that ‘energies’ are being demonstrated.
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Meanwhile, the volume of spam continues to rise, as hucksters pitch porn sites, pyramid schemes, quack health remedies, online casinos, mortgage refinancing, and so on.
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Doubtles the author of this libell was some vagabond huckster or pedler, and had gone particularly into many corners of Island to vtter his trumpery wares, which he also testifieth of himselfe in his worthy rimes, that he had trauailed thorow the greatest part of
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Sorry that I have to resort to such shameless huckstering.
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All of this convinced Bryson that he didn't have to transform his modest self into a careerist huckster in order to make more of his living from music.
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They're stock hucksters, touts, gamblers and flim-flammers.
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As any huckster can tell you, when the quality goes down, the hype goes up.
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The real danger is that people will believe the hucksters and take only things like these.
Times, Sunday Times
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Comets have always offered rich pickings for hucksters.
Times, Sunday Times
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These homespun medications were sold by itinerant hucksters, pharmacies, and whoever could spellbind a listener with lofty promises of cure.
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The Coroner, in pointing the moral, condemned the sale at hucksters' shops of cheap, pernicious cigarettes and said the case should be a warning to boys addicted to cigarette smoking.
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Others dealt with hucksters, peddlers who accepted chestnuts and other goods in exchange for merchandise.
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Disillusioned, we go off on our own and cultivate a pure spirituality uncontaminated by religious hucksters and hypocrites.
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He mused (more than asked): ‘Do you know you can measure the state of the economies of most developing countries by the number of hucksters you encounter at traffic lights?’
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English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain
Brocante / Antiques
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It is the suggestive, sometimes prurient, power of euphemism that lends itself so serviceably to the poet on one hand, and to the busybody, huckster, or sniggerer on the other.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2
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At the base there was the mass of peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, at best shopkeepers.
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The firepan, the kindling, the bitumen were his own; but the lumber, of rags, old wood and nameless combustible rubbish (for all is fuel to him), was gathered from huckster, and ass-panniers, of every description under heaven.
The French Revolution
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We saw that with the tea-bag parties that Fox huckstered.
Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Grade at 100? What About Our Grade?
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Rather than caricaturing him, Gladwell uses Popeil and his family legacy of boardwalk huckstering to teach Madison Avenue lessons it would never have learned in business school.
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Of course, in the universal association of Jews with commerce and huckstering there was a huge element of stereotyping.
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Besides, consumers have always been in an equilibrium with advertisers and hucksters - some gullible people will fall for anything, while others are impervious to all manipulation.
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The real danger is that people will believe the hucksters and take only things like these.
Times, Sunday Times
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In that street there's a man who hucksters boiled corn.
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It seems a mortgage company that briefly held my loan two years ago is still peddling my personal financial information to every huckster with a LaserJet printer.
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In rural areas, grocers dispatched so-called huckster wagons to the country to sell canned goods and prepared foods, and customers were dependent on when these wagons arrived and what they carried.
Forbes.com: News
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Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick, creeping hucksterism of contemporary life.
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Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".
Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
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Chicago Tribune: The long-discredited hCG diet is making a comeback thanks to hucksters & TV exposure, despite the fact that research shows the diet restriction to a near-starvation 500 calories a day, while regularly injecting human chorionic gonadotrophin has been ineffective and possibly harmful.
NYT > Home Page
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The trick is to find them among the dross of ill-informed advice from psychobabbling hucksters who don't seem to live in the real world.
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‘detractress’ (Addison); ‘hucksteress’ (Howell); ‘tutoress’
English Past and Present
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A prop-betting huckster is making sure all his bets are +EV, and is very calculating about how to play the social aspects to encourage people to make - EV bets.
Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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English synonyms: to dicker, to bargain, to wrangle, to haggle, to higgle, to huckster marchander un prix = to negotiate a price tenter de marchander = to try to bargain
Brocante / Antiques
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Although it's true that Fuller's reputation has never quite shaken off the hucksterism, and at times his writing reads like a very bad weblog, this was an extraordinary achievement.
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Trippi then goes into how he believes the Internet can be used for politics, and he takes the usual stands and cites the usual suspects, what a lot of us call the huckster crowd, Dave Winer, Howard Rheingold, Doc Searls and the rest.
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