(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.
Salesman
Definition:
(n.) One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) The global face of Britain is now a buffoon (as many in Brussels describe him), whose word is as reliable as a used-car salesman’s.
(3) The salesman, who had no medical training, arrived each week with pizza to assure Masih that claims of addiction were exaggerated and to press him to prescribe more of the drug.
(4) But another lawsuit against Zuckerberg, by Paul Ceglia , a New York-based former wood-pellet salesman who argues that a 2003 contract with Zuckerberg gives him a claim to a large share of the company, which was started in 2004, continues.
(5) Branded cigarettes are 'badge' products, frequently on display, which therefore act as a 'silent salesman'.
(6) The best bond salesman ever would struggle to sell a billion pounds worth of gilts every day.
(7) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
(8) The story is influenced by Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
(9) His father, an insurance salesman, played the cello and his mother the piano.
(10) The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar Read more Speaking hours before the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Asghar Farhadi said the movement against the US president empowered people to “say no to oppressive political powers everywhere”.
(11) My father [an insurance salesman] thought it was a wonderful movie and, indeed, was well known as the only person in his particular peer group who had understood the movie.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joko Widodo, widely expected to be Indonesia's next president, is a former furniture salesman and mayor of the central Javan city of Surakarta – and is another political anomaly.
(13) It certainly isn't the sort of deal that would have been offered or accepted had the salesman appeared on your doorstep.
(14) The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, former prime minister John Major and the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby have also weighed in against the energy companies, which the latest polls show are less trusted than banks and car salesman.
(15) AstraZeneca's chief executive, Pascal Soriot, brought a new focus on science when he took over from David Brennan, a former salesman, 18 months ago.
(16) The gang convicted today were: Lea Rusha, 35, a former roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; car salesman Stuart Royle, 49, of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kent; unemployed Jetmir Bucpapa, 26, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge; garage owner Roger Coutts, 30, of The Green, Welling, south-east London; and Emir Hysenaj, 28, a Post Office worker, of New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex.
(17) The @USAdarFarsi account, which launched in February 2011 and seeks to engage directly with Iranians, had previously tweeted messages about The Salesman, including on 24 January when it noted its Academy Award nomination and sent best wishes to Farhadi.
(18) Vaz, who reportedly told the men his name was Jim and that he was a washing machine salesman, is also quoted discussing with the men the possibility of obtaining cocaine for the next time they met, although Vaz reportedly said he would not want to take the drug himself.
(19) Instead, his pitch was that he was a dealmaker and salesman who could use his gift of the gab and “art of the deal” to break gridlock in Washington DC.
(20) The tragedy is that Brown's many admirable qualities and instincts – his social conscience and moral compass – could have been more constructively and generously deployed in shaping Blair's instincts and salesman's skills: they showed at the G7's Africa summit in Gleneagles (2005) what they could do together.