as in vendors
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 hucksters
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.
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Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead.
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Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
The Conjuring–verse is an exercise in branding, the brainchild of master hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren.
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
While the real-life Warrens undoubtedly were hucksters and snake-oil salesmen, the fictional ones are an intensely likable couple whose love for each other is far firmer than the veil between the living and the dead.
—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hucksters
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It is sold on street corners from vendors with large gourds, and also seen mixed with spirits on cocktail menus in upscale restaurants throughout the state.
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The thunderous cry rings out over a crowd gathered in front of a television propped up on plastic tables and past a maze of vendors lining a bustling working-class neighborhood in downtown Mexico City.
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As the managing broker of RE/MAX United's Raleigh office, Edwards has spent nearly 13 years helping buyers and sellers navigate one of life's biggest transitions.
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But because World Cup ticket prices have surged since the tournament began, those sellers have been forced to either buy expensive tickets to fulfill their orders or cancel and accept penalties from resale platforms.
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Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers.
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Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars.
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After settling along India’s west coast, many Parsis built their lives as merchants in bustling ports.
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Well over 90 percent of the Africans captured in Africa and shipped across the Atlantic were captured by African merchants and African elites.
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There will be huge crowds in the Battery and Downtown Thursday for the Knicks parade and afterwards some will be interested in going to Liberty and Ellis, making easy prey for the hawkers.
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Speaking to the outlet, fellow officer Muhammad Shamsul Alam Sarkar said that most of those who died were hawkers of plastic items and worked in the town of Chowmuhani.
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Many of these important pieces ended up in museums around the world thanks to art dealers who either faked provenance papers or smuggled them out of the country.
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In the real world, automakers can use the allocation to pressure dealers into doing just about anything.
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“Hucksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hucksters. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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