hucksters

plural of huckster
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. 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
Noun
  • Turkey sandwiches, cheesecakes and other foods inside the back two-door upright refrigerator were from unapproved vendors.
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Jones could keep operating his platform even while facing direct collection efforts, which affects employees, vendors, and business partners caught in the crossfire.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That's a market that favors sellers and sits just above half the six-month inventory threshold that marks a balanced market, the report said.
    Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Amazon used its marketplace data to copy and undercut sellers.
    Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, the beauty of New Orleans proper was found in its colorful variety of humans—the loons and cons, the beggars and peddlers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In 1494, for example, mathematician and ‘father of modern accounting’ Luca Pacioli wrote of Venetian merchants willfully rendering their ledgers illegible.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The tech giant said more than one million Shopify merchants, including Skims and Glossier, are coming soon.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The mall fills up with crappy weed shops and keychain hawkers; underfunding means the maintenance slips; eventually, maybe, there’s a bankruptcy, followed by a long twilight as an eyesore.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.
    Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those are my favorite furniture dealers here in New York.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
  • To remedy this recall, dealers will update the software free of charge.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025

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