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
  • To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Book directly with vendors While third-party sites are great for tracking trends and comparing prices, travelers should be mindful of extra fees that can push them over budget.
    Essence, Essence, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The mini-drama trend started out predominantly in Asia but has expanded globally of late, and was a big discussion point at the recent MIPCOM Cannes as commissioners and sellers look to take advantage.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • They are expected to be sellers at the trade deadline, but bringing in Lockett signals that may not be the case.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Operating at the extreme fringes is also an effective strategy for maximizing exposure in the algorithm, which explains why popular influencers such as the Nelk Boys and Jake Paul started their YouTube careers as prank peddlers, before leaning into more overtly political content.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • For merchants, the agentic era introduces two new interaction models for connecting with customers.
    Matt Renner, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And, in an indication of widespread appeal, different third-party merchants sell the glasses online in China.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There also did not appear to be many hawkers, who stand on the sidewalk with binders filled with photographs of different items that are later retrieved from a storefront, storage bin or other location upon request.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Today, the bikemaker has more than 5,000 dealers in India alone, with a global presence in more than 90 countries, and five manufacturing facilities spread out across the globe to meet that demand.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Children unfamiliar with the world in time become easy marks for the dealers in fascist politics and quack religions.
    Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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