hucksters

Definition of huckstersnext
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
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Noun
  • Still, the order blocks vendors from selling any new Wi-Fi routers that are manufactured, developed, or designed outside the US in a major way.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The Dotonbori district is so alive and vibrant at night, with all kinds of street vendors, people laughing in the street, and these fun, glowing party boats going by in the canals.
    Matt Bomer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But the Dubai price, which tracks physical delivery from certain Middle East sellers, is up 76%, more than twice the paper price, at $126.
    Matt Peterson, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
  • According to Redfin, a buyer’s market is when there are over 10% more sellers than buyers.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • And more recently, federal raids hit merchants and their customers.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Scammers can then run additional transactions using the same card details, sometimes across different merchants or terminals.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The patio at Murphy’s grew fuller by the minute and an hour or so later, the Wrigley ball hawkers — a dwindling group of fans who gather along Waveland Avenue to catch home run balls launched well over the left field fence — were starting to take their positions.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That September, my parents were contacted by a cult of weed and LSD dealers in California with the incredible name the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, who wanted help breaking their hero, Timothy Leary, out of prison.
    Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • It was initially thought to be a curiosity, a firework or a special effect, until Song-dynasty arms dealers started using it to make fire arrows and other military explosives.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026

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“Hucksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hucksters. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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