hucksterism

noun

huck·​ster·​ism -təˌrizəm 

plural -s

: persuasive showmanship in advertising or selling : commercialism sense 2

sponsoring the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts … without the faintest trace of bad taste or hucksterism

—Howard Taubman

the unashamed hucksterism practiced by our present government

—R. L. Riggs

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