Noun : the crass methods of political hucksters. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : to huckster fresh corn; to huckster for a living. From Dictionary.com.
So is seeing the president huckstering for Detroit. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Administration is Becoming a Stand-Up Comedy Act] Reference
Just performing my monthly anti-spam huckstering duties…. From Wordnik.com. [Irony « Whatever] Reference
Even your son thinks you're now a civil rights huckstering dinosaur. From Wordnik.com. [There's something about Jesse.] Reference
We can never have too many of these little ditties in the huckstering. From Wordnik.com. [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference
Shameless huckstering; Comic Book Galaxy; free advertising; steal these links. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-06-12] Reference
We can buy what we need and resist the temptations created by huckstering salesmen. From Wordnik.com. [David Latt: The Upside of the Downturn] Reference
One has to hand it to authors Harvey Klehr and John Haynes who know a bit about huckstering and sloganeering. From Wordnik.com. [Myra MacPherson: Review: Spies: the Rise and Fall of the KGB in America and "Three Tales of I.F Stone and the KGB: Kalugin, Venona and the Notebooks"] Reference
He felt he had more in common with the greedy huckstering outside than with the sanctity of the awaiting chapels. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The houses in the thoroughfare were three-storied, and a number wore used as shops of the huckstering variety, mainly by Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Jewry, would be the self-emancipation of our time …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Annan Deputy Criticizes U.S. Policy; Bolton Demands Apology, Says U.N. Will Be ‘the Victim’] Reference
I see plainly, what vext you was, because forsooth I reflected with some Spleen, on your little huckstering Society, with its two-penny. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
Forgetting how they had disliked Abbas II and called him a huckstering profligate, they mourned for his deposal by wearing black ties, especially the students. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
This sort of fickle and unprincipled governance — governance by haggling and huckstering — has been going on for over a year, and it shows no signs of ending. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference
He wondered sardonically if it might not be the soul of Sylvia Pittston, the giant woman whose religious huckstering had led to the final showdown in Tull ... but knew it was not. From Wordnik.com. [The Gunslinger]
Grown gross by huckstering ways and sordid craft. From Wordnik.com. [Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts] Reference
I'd hurl y'r traitor leaders huckstering the land's good for silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference
Come on! if you dare to strike a blow, you peddling, truckling, huckstering knaves!. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Red Robe] Reference
Iceland, and were huckstering and sea roving about the Baltic and among the British Isles. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
Summers are always slow, and every four years the Presidential huckstering makes it worse. From Wordnik.com. [DhafirTrial] Reference
But certainly you're investing more of your credibility when you're huckstering something. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
All along the south façade, print and cook shops were seen, and small huckstering went on unheeded. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
A true book does not go about advertising itself, huckstering for souls, arranging its greatness small enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
All his Barnumesque huckstering for the project has been creating a building current of negativity against Millar. From Wordnik.com. [Mania News Feed] Reference
Indemnity; Middleton and his adherents delayed it, and endeavoured to compound with delinquents in a spirit of barefaced huckstering. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
They irritated the Prince of Orange by huckstering about subsidies to a degree which his proud and generous nature could hardly brook. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Covetousness, a huckstering spirit, a thirst for gain, calculating envy, hypocrisy -- what despicable vices have they not become to us. From Wordnik.com. [Gems (?) of German Thought] Reference
This truly fundamental base being once laid, all differences arising from the spirit of huckstering and barter might be easily adjusted. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)] Reference
If love were always to be in proportion to desert, measured out in strictest and justest huckstering conformity therewith, what a poor thing it would be!. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
There are hardly any of our trades, except the merely huckstering ones, in which some knowledge of science may not be directly profitable to the pursuer of that occupation. From Wordnik.com. [Science & Education] Reference
"I'm not huckstering my home, and I'd choose the buyer if I was selling. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Lights] Reference
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