(v. t.) To cut roughly or hack; to cut into small pieces; to notch or cut in an unskillful manner; to make rough or mangle by cutting; as, a boy haggles a stick of wood.
(v. i.) To be difficult in bargaining; to stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
(n.) The act or process of haggling.
Example Sentences:
(1) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
(2) IMF officials are in Cairo, haggling with the Muslim Brotherhood government about the conditions of a proposed $4.8bn loan.
(3) His Freedom party is running at 31% in the most recent opinion poll, ahead of all other contenders, and he has spent most of this week at a secret location with Verhagen and Mark Rutte, the liberals' leader, haggling over the terms for a new coalition government.
(4) Months of political haggling will now begin as the nation is drastically reordered.
(5) With strict rules about hassling and haggling, it’s by far the most relaxing and tourist-friendly shopping experience in the city.
(6) With Twitter shares reportedly 30 times oversubscribed, by the time the haggling was over, they had been marked up to $45.10.
(7) He is condemned to survive by continuous haggling in a minority government.
(8) "I suspect some haggling is now going on between the IMF and the eurozone on how they can share the burden of a bigger programme," he said.
(9) Sticking point Many observers, including Douglas McCabe of Enders Analysis, suspect that this contract – rather than haggling over price – lies at the heart of negotiations between INM and Lebedev.
(10) Our passing let us down, we need more creative passing.” His hope that Ángel Di María, the Real Madrid winger, can provide some sophisticated deliveries remains on hold as the two clubs haggle over a fee.
(11) And on the campaign trail he declared: “If you can’t make a good deal with a politician then there’s something wrong with you.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest President ‘pulled out every stop’ to pass healthcare bill, Spicer says The haggling and horse trading over components of the American Health Care Act should be Trump’s forte.
(12) Against the backdrop of haggling that is taking place in Athens today officials say the issue of “a new [debt] haircut is definitely in the air.” “I think it would be fair to say that it is affecting the talks,” one official said.
(13) Haggling continued on Monday around Greek government plans over pensions, taxes and labour market reform.
(14) China agreed to waive all claims for compensation - instead of haggling over its population's right for recompense, Beijing settled for new bridges, dams and airports.
(15) Seven in 10 (69%) said this would make them spend more time considering deals or haggling with their current provider and 78% said this would prompt them to put more time into finding a deal that is better value for money.
(16) All the late-in-the-day haggling with the Liberal Democrats in the Lords clouded the scheme somewhat, but the basic intention remains – Monitor will set the ground rules for competition between hospitals, and the weak will be left to go to the wall.
(17) It was not then necessary for them to be on a trolley for hours while junior doctors haggled on the telephone or nurses were too busy to administer food, drink and bedpans.
(18) The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was swept to power nine weeks ago on an anti-austerity platform and ever since has been haggling with Brussels, the European Central Bank and the IMF over a cash-for-reforms deal to unlock €7.2bn in aid.
(19) Yet the haggling in the past fortnight has all been over that important principle, which surely should have been established at the outset.
(20) Be sure to haggle, as dealers generally drop their prices by 10-15%.
Huckster
Definition:
(n.) A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.
(n.) A mean, trickish fellow.
(v. i.) To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women in suits, mothers and daughters, hucksters selling “Nasty Women” pins and tens of thousands of members of the public came to Manhattan’s largest glass ceiling on Tuesday night, to await the result of a presidential election that many hoped would sweep away the highest gender barrier in US politics .
(2) It is no accident that so many of Twain's characters are hucksters and hustlers, or that deception and opportunism are abiding themes in his writing.
(3) The term "foodist" is actually much older, used from the late 19th century for hucksters selling fad diets (which is quite apt); and as late as 1987 one New York Times writer proposed it semi-seriously as a positive description, to replace the unlovely "gastronaut": "In the tradition of nudist, philanthropist and Buddhist, may I suggest 'foodist', one who is enthusiastic about good eating?"
(4) One huckster inside the de facto pope swag bazaar at the Columbus Circle subway station confirmed that he would resell any tickets – any tickets he obtained whatsoever – at a higher price than he had paid.
(5) We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea – pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, entrepreneurs and hucksters.
(6) Still, free traders now are huckstering the TPP with promises of job gains.” Some critics of the trade pact say the White House staff has not done a good job briefing Obama about the deal and its critics’ arguments.
(7) This, in turn, leaves them prey to hucksters like Farage, who can claim to speak for them.
(8) How great has been the assault on tolerance by those who routinely and callously portray migrants as parasitic freeloaders and hucksters?
(9) Sophisticated consumers of the future will not only feed themselves better; they will be far less prone to the victims of ignorance, the misplaced enthusiasm of the food faddist, the hucksterism of the charlatan, and the malice of those who inflate their egos, and earn their living by alarming others.
(10) Voters may wise up to the hucksters who try to persuade them that everyone who supports the opposing party is Evil Incarnate.
(11) GOP primary opponents, and later Hillary Clinton, used the lawsuits to bash Trump as a huckster.
(12) It was that recalcitrant member any good club needs … The union, for all its failings, did not deserve to be betrayed by a huckster.
(13) In Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens, the Atlantic City of 1972 becomes the anteroom to Paradise for two brothers: one a depressive talk-radio host, the other a manic huckster.
(14) The hordes had moved on, she said, followed by an even larger caravan of hucksters, salesmen, water-carriers, fire-eaters and purveyors of cheap food.
(15) Marketing is defined as responding sensitively to human needs, not hucksterism, and is an appropriate activity for centers.
(16) What counts is the strength of Jason's very American illusions: that he can serve God and get rich, even now that God is dead, that Paradise is always just over the horizon, and that whatever happens, hucksterism and bullshit will always save the day.