hucksterish

Through a documentary crew's cameras, we follow a cheerfully cynical hucksterish preacher Cotton Marcus Patrick Fabian, a jobbing actor who you'll probably start noticing in everything after seeing this great performance, who, despite losing his faith long ago, still makes ends meet performing semi-lucrative exorcisms.

This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011

He's teasing us, of course – daring us to call him a showman-charlatan; a hucksterish Hitchcock of Hollywood homicide.

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy – review John O'Connell 2010

Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".

Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62 2011

But this story stands on its own merits, and I won't want the words and plain, pure images to be overshadowed and diminished by hucksterish hype.

Tom Watson: Will Media Hucksters Wreck A Great American Story? They're Trying... 2009

The last Games exist largely as a foil for the present, and the Japanese, who have studied the hucksterish excesses of Atlanta well, have made no secret of their zeal to offer another -- better -- Olympic face to the world at Nagano this year.

Festival Of Youth 2008

And I think, if he read the Bible at all -- and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of -- at all -- that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way.

CNN Transcript May 15, 2007 2007

They had to make it into a site appropriate to publish news and information instead of the hucksterish combination of chat links, advertising come-ons and marketing displays that the Advance sites were before.

Overnight « BuzzMachine 2005

And I think, if he read the Bible at all -- and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of -- at all -- that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way.

CNN Transcript May 15, 2007 2007

This was set up by a 'hucksterish publisher' named Henry Coburn nicknamed the Prince of Puffers, and it was designed to do two things: to puff Coburn's own publications and to hatchet those of his rival publishers.

In critical condition Michael Allen 2005

NYTV had other matters to discuss with him anyway: like, how does he feel about having to interrupt the flow of the tense postseason games to do hucksterish voice-over promos for various NBC products like Third Watch and The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns?

Two Saturday Night Live Stars Feud 1999