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- noun Plural form of
huckster . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
huckster .
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Examples
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The bottom line: turning the State Department's functions over to Beltway bandits and Hollywood hucksters is not in the interest of the American people.
Bob Jacobson: Privatizing Public Diplomacy: Clinton's Shanghai Expo Sustainability Pledge Goes Awry Bob Jacobson 2010
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The bottom line: turning the State Department's functions over to Beltway bandits and Hollywood hucksters is not in the interest of the American people.
Bob Jacobson: Privatizing Public Diplomacy: Clinton's Shanghai Expo Sustainability Pledge Goes Awry Bob Jacobson 2010
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Worth cites Al Akhbar's editor, Ibrahim al-Amine, waxing lyrical about Israel's coming elimination, and the subsequent deportation of the Jews "back to Europe," where, as the "hucksters" and "hagglers" dismissed by Marx in his On the Jewish Question, they will feel much more at home in its brazenly capitalist environment.
Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010
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Worth cites Al Akhbar's editor, Ibrahim al-Amine, waxing lyrical about Israel's coming elimination, and the subsequent deportation of the Jews "back to Europe," where, as the "hucksters" and "hagglers" dismissed by Marx in his On the Jewish Question, they will feel much more at home in its brazenly capitalist environment.
Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010
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From these humble "hucksters," a hot peppery stew, a dish of
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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Similar trucks were driven by "hucksters" as movable shops filled with groceries or other objects.
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So we know, for instance, that her ancestors came from Alsace-Lorraine in Europe and that there were several "hucksters" in the family in 1870 (the first time this category was used).
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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"hucksters" of Amsterdam resolved on a deed of daring which is one of the most exalted among "the high traditions of the world."
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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The hucksters are painting the world in black and white dualities.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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The West has lost it's confidence in assimilation, of self-sufficiency, so immigrants learn to celebrate their indigenous culture (which was so wonderful they had to leave it), to demand various rights, and glom onto racial and ethnic hucksters who make a living off the guilt of European suburbanites.
Immigration: Has the Public Been Ignored?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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