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: one who produces promotional material for commercial clients especially for radio or television
huckstered; huckstering
ˈhək-st(ə-)riŋ 
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Huckster comes from the Dutch noun hokester and verb hoeken, which means "to peddle."
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Examples of huckster in a Sentence
Noun
hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers
Recent Examples on the Web
Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
Fad diets and exercise programs, ever the bread and butter of unscrupulous hucksters trying to make an easy buck on the internet, have likewise proved no match for crowdsourced research.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
As a result, low-level hucksters or those peddling unproven treatments often don’t get as much attention.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
The best parts are the musical ones, of course, but there's plenty of deliciously trashy John Waters-style cheese happening too, with silly subplots and exaggerated teen stereotypes (nerd, huckster, prep, secretly beautiful girl with glasses) all adding up to the perfect party movie.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2023
More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
The Christian Evangelicals there are a good test for candidates’ ability to message to the party’s base and can very quickly spot a huckster—or reward a Mike Huckabee.
—TIME, 14 Jan. 2024
Some became performers and hucksters, craftspeople and con artists, drifters and thieves.
—Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
Noun
What the huckster cannot teach, however, is how to acquire a certain bulldozing charisma—a glossy armor of charm and entitlement, trailing a faint spritz of sociopathy, so relentless and inevitable that its possessor can only seem lightly amused by it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2024
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
Fad diets and exercise programs, ever the bread and butter of unscrupulous hucksters trying to make an easy buck on the internet, have likewise proved no match for crowdsourced research.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
As a result, low-level hucksters or those peddling unproven treatments often don’t get as much attention.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
The best parts are the musical ones, of course, but there's plenty of deliciously trashy John Waters-style cheese happening too, with silly subplots and exaggerated teen stereotypes (nerd, huckster, prep, secretly beautiful girl with glasses) all adding up to the perfect party movie.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2023
More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
The Christian Evangelicals there are a good test for candidates’ ability to message to the party’s base and can very quickly spot a huckster—or reward a Mike Huckabee.
—TIME, 14 Jan. 2024
Some became performers and hucksters, craftspeople and con artists, drifters and thieves.
—Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
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“Huckster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/huckster. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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