huckster

as in vendor
one who sells things outdoors hucksters outside the auditorium selling everything from key chains to life-size cutouts of the performers

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Recent Examples of huckster Cusack is at her huckster best as the film's antagonist, but Addams Family Values is a star vehicle for Lloyd, who is the quintessential Uncle Fester in the eyes of most present fans. Lee Escobedo, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2024 Trebay, a longtime style reporter for the Times, peppers his story with reminiscences of his vibrant but troubled family, especially his huckster father and outlaw sister. The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 Yet this devastation and despair are not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response. David Klepper, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024 Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters, and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response. David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for huckster
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Noun
  • This ongoing analysis requires more from software vendors than just running a vulnerability scanner and applying patches.
    Vincent Danen, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Pedicabs careened between skyscrapers blasting reggaeton and carrying giddy groups of fans to Mint and Graham streets, where vendors hawked tacos and arepas, and Spanish felt an awful lot like the most prevalent language being spoken.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Consequently, buying motions disrupt selling motions, and sellers must prioritize buyer enablement.
    Forrester, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • Many of his books have been best sellers, and his biography of Washington won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • More recently, the city tested out pilot programs focused on enforcing existing code laws in order to deter unlicensed peddlers near the SAP Center and the 2024 downtown holiday events.
    Devan Patel, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • White supremacists and disinformation peddlers have been welcomed back to the platform, even as some longtime users try to cling to its utility for sharing real-time news and information.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet and were formidable sea merchants and colonizers, establishing city-states throughout the central and western Mediterranean.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • Good luck going and trying to scan QR codes and figuring out, okay, which merchant accepts, which doesn't.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Singapore’s Lau Pa Sat hawker center, in the city’s Central Business District.
    Kevin Lim, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
  • With this homegrown production, strawberries are now cheaper in Senegal’s groceries and even sold by hawkers on the streets.
    Carmen Abd Ali, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025

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“Huckster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/huckster. Accessed 19 May. 2025.

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