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"huckster" Definitions
  1. (disapproving) a person who uses aggressive or annoying methods to sell something
  2. a person who sells things in the street or by visiting people’s houses

174 Sentences With "huckster"

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How did a TV huckster hijack the Republicans' nomination process?
I didn't at first; I thought he was a huckster.
As another great huckster said, there's one born every minute.
Mr. Trump's style and success as a huckster and Mrs.
Fiona Hill was considered like a huckster or a liar.
The country was being hijacked by an evil and dangerous huckster.
Saul Goodman is an attorney with a side order of huckster.
Yes, he's still corporate huckster, but it reads more Bernie than Trump.
Never fear, there's always another huckster to take your sucker money. pic.twitter.
Trump is so crooked, and such a huckster, we're used to it.
It's hard not to think of the great cult leader/huckster Rajneesh.
Burgle, Swashburgle and Undercity Huckster are the Rogue-specific tools for the job.
As with the sales pitch of any good huckster though—wait, there's more.
In any context, Mr Trump's fairground-huckster approach to politics would be alarming.
Charles M. Blow The Republican Party is trapped between a rock and huckster.
Reagan was more the grandfather and Mr. Trump is more the huckster, granted.
Trump himself is obviously not eager to call attention to his huckster history.
He's a carnival huckster promising that America will thrive with his snake oil.
Sims, a huckster and experimenter on enslaved women's bodies, had served his purpose.
Blogging doesn't need a huckster like me coming in and trying to sell it.
The cafes were filled with radical intellectuals, oil sheikhs and every kind of huckster.
Between a hero and a huckster, between speaking and mouthing, the distance is great.
The other's a political huckster who has yet to tell the truth about anything.
The other guy was a huckster, who did the book that did very well.
Mayor Quimby agrees to build a monorail after a huckster sells him on it.
New Age huckster Deepak Chopra was also there to offer guided meditations in the courtyard.
Maybe there isn't a magic tea to tell voters that Donald Trump is a huckster.
The union, for all its failings, did not deserve to be betrayed by a huckster.
Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
Not with everyone — I wouldn't bother talking to a huckster like Milo Yiannopoulos, for example.
Voters should beware of any political huckster, including President Trump, who tries to sell it.
I think, just like a ring-toss huckster, Hannity secretly doesn't believe one thing he says.
Except Daniels is no ordinary porn star but, like Trump, a huckster of the highest order.
Or maybe he's like New Shimmer — maybe he's both a huckster and a lynch-mob organizer.
He exhorted them like a cheerleader or an encounter-group huckster before escaping into his office.
A song is sung by a person of ill repute: a huckster, a herder, a whore.
In a December 2016 Facebook comment, Cordova called Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster," CNN reported.
My memories of Cochran are of a huckster, a preacherly clown, like "Seinfeld" 's Jackie Chiles.
Only a huckster and a hick: one to be ridiculed, and the other to be refuted.
In a December 2016 Facebook comment, Cordova called Bill Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster," CNN reported.
J.D. Hall, the site's founder, called Mr. Cahn "the most prominent and successful omen huckster" working today.
"I'm just a huckster, I'm a promoter, I wake up every day with a new idea," he said.
" Sanders continued: "'Buffoon' because of tendencies that, when examined closely, seem more like those of a carnival huckster.
" The Arkansas Times , an alt-weekly, recently declared, "If the Huckster spawn had a soul, she's sold it.
Daniel, meanwhile, has become a glib huckster who yells "Banzai!" in commercials for his chain of auto dealerships.
That Jones himself is a callous huckster who could not even remotely hold his own under Kelly's questioning?
It might have been audacious, like P. T. Barnum — you're a salesman, a huckster, a hustler, a barker?
There's an unforgettable scene in which, on their way to the beach, a huckster takes money from Aldo.
"We'll put Sarah Huckster Wannabee Sanders over here," he said, lining her up near John Bolton ("Used War Salesman").
I love this idea that Keeley maybe was being a bit of huckster, but stumbled into the real cure.
In private, Murdoch regarded Trump with disdain, seeing him as a real-estate huckster and a shady casino operator.
The official, Jon Cordova, among other things, reportedly called Hillary Clinton a "slimy trailer trash huckster" in one post.
Is this the crusade of a secular messiah or the last, best act of a huckster and con man?
What happens when some huckster starts selling vitamins to complement a polygenic risk score, or some other forms of woo?
Trump, the gaudy huckster who treats closing a sale as the height of human endeavor, is a quintessentially American figure.
People see him as a cheap huckster who happens to have an office we respect as president of the United States.
"Don't Be George Sodini—Seriously—Get some game and get real," wrote one MRA huckster, linking to his own online store.
And when a high-tech huckster starts offering deals that are too good to be true, who's supposed to stop him?
She runs into Malchus Irvin Boncamper (Jeffrey Wright), a Nevis-based accounting huckster involved with fake insurance companies – among other frauds.
It's good to know about Joe Knowles, an early-20th-century huckster whose naked camping exploits made him a national celebrity.
Basically, a last chance to prove to rank and file Republicans that he wasn't some huckster who had hijacked their party.
Yet Trump himself, by liberal consensus, was a huckster mogul of the social-media age, selling magic potions laced with poison.
"Soutirage is nothing but a crass huckster," Gundlach said in a complaint filed in a California state court in Los Angeles.
Not long after Taylor announced his suit, men's rights huckster turned Trump cheerleader Mike Cernovich claimed he would sue publishing platform Medium.
Without a solid grounding in real, fact-based economics and history, our young people are sitting ducks for any huckster promising freebies.
It is also perhaps the most revealing portrait of Mr. Jones — one that strips bare the bloviating host to expose a huckster.
For such a nomadic operation, Ringling has an elongated history with New York, stretching back to that indelible huckster, P. T. Barnum.
Some people in Chicago dismiss Pfleger as a huckster who is more interested in getting attention than in working to find solutions.
Dominic "The Dice Dominator" LoRiggio is the greatest craps player to ever live, a complete huckster, or both—it depends who you ask.
And the thrice-married huckster had the nerve to tell evangelicals here Friday that marriage and family are the building blocks for success.
Warning letters are fine, but more aggressive oversight from the FDA is needed to help consumers separate legitimate products from huckster miracle cures.
Flake attacks Trump as a false prophet, a huckster, and a demagogue, but has done little to check his power in any way.
After all, most of the Democratic base views still views Trump as a racist, a huckster, a sexual predator and an illegitimate president.
Instead, she's a kind of post-feminist huckster, selling us traditional femininity and support of male power wrapped up in a feminist bow.
What started as a seemingly ridiculous idea — a prequel about Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad's huckster lawyer — has evolved into arguably a superior show.
But if it is ever to be achieved Tony Blair, a discredited political huckster, is the very last man the public would turn to.
But dubious health claims — whether by some profiteering huckster or simply well-meaning people trying to improve their health — go far beyond just vaccines.
The military, in disarray, is easily infiltrated by the huckster Tobias Beckett and his gang, who pass themselves off as a captain and infantry.
Whether Mr. Neumann was hailed as a visionary or denigrated as a huckster, he had always maintained a powerful hold on voting power within WeWork.
He seemed more like a toon, a cocky huckster swanning around Gotham with a statuesque woman on his arm and skyscrapers stamped with his brand.
He wasn't a huckster, which is why you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who would speak ill of the man even before his passing.
No matter how much Trump lies — no matter how clearly he's shown to be a con artist and huckster — his supporters just entrench themselves ever more.
The fact that a shameless huckster like Donald Trump managed to turn such a disparate movement into a somewhat effective political force does not bode well.
In his new book he offers proof that he is also a huckster who goes all-in with the entertaining gobbledygook associated with the family name.
If it doesn't, Democrats risk depressing exactly the kind of voters they'll need to win back power from a huckster who knows what fake populism looks like.
However, the developers should be forewarned: Putting a monorail in your game without also adding in some kind of huckster monorail architect would be a grave error.
Gray markets emerge not out of mere huckster opportunism (although opportunists tend to emerge and benefit from them) but out of a void of resources and options.
The invincibly ignorant and the intellectual huckster have every right to express their opinions, but their right to free speech is not the right to an audience.
And so the stars eat ludicrously hot wings, sit with a therapist they've never met, engage some aw-shucks huckster to connect them to the other side.
The feature documentary that cemented the Maysles's reputation centered on a middle-aged huckster selling Bibles door-to-door and seemingly at the end of his road.
Kim Dotcom in 1993, copyright Boris Rostamu-RabetThe record on Kim Dotcom is pretty clear: he's an blowhard huckster who broke laws and got rightfully punished for it.
"He called me names, because I dared to stand up for our values," he said, referring to Jolly calling him a "huckster" at his campaign announcement last fall.
From the forthcoming book AMERICAN HUCKSTER: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich From-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Cabal in World Sports by Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson.
In Wilson's telling, Barnum is a far more complex character—a huckster, yes, but one with high-minded ideals that he strove, sometimes successfully, to live up to.
Donald Trump—gaudy real-estate brander, reality-show star, educational huckster—has been in the glare just as long, but as a bit player in the national phantasmagoria.
Six months go, he settled for $25 million two lawsuits and a fraud case regarding his phony university, a huckster scheme that duped people out of their personal savings.
At the start of the series, Saul Goodman — best known as Walter White's huckster lawyer in Breaking Bad — goes by another name, the one given to him at birth.
At some point, it will hit his followers that they've been sold out by a huckster who coveted their votes only for the sake of his colossal self-regard.
Money Monster is less about condemning Wall Street than about watching Lee lose his flamboyant huckster persona one layer at a time, first to sheer terror, then to other considerations.
I'll give President Trump credit for being a genius at the art of the smear, as well as a world-class huckster who lives a life of quid pro quo.
Christian Slater does a lot with his limited on-screen moments, imbuing his huckster role with enough depth to suggest that there is a sliver of humanity in his perceptions.
If this man were some no-name huckster, our response would be very simple: he is a con man with an unbreakable habit of fraudulent behavior, never to be trusted.
His political opponents seized on the allegations, and angry former students — including Ms. Simpson — spoke out, painting Mr. Trump as a huckster who had conned ordinary people for personal profit.
The huckster has pretended to recognize Aldo, and Aldo assumes he might be a former student from the time when he taught high school or at a university in Rome.
In doing so, they whipped up furor against Republican elites, setting the stage for a principle-free huckster to prey on angry voters' emotions to advance a fundamentally anti-conservative agenda.
I'm not saying Hotz is a huckster — he's done enough to prove that he's talented — but he worked that hotel conference room like a preacher at an old-time tent revival.
Trump at the time appeared to be invincible, a juggernaut, but he is suddenly starting to look like his real self again: a clown, a huckster, a weirdly coiffed conspiracy theorist.
Trump is promising to give them what they want because he doesn't respect their intelligence — and he doesn't respect their intelligence not because he's a huckster, but because he's a liberal.
Donald Trump, casino owner, TV huckster, and idol of lonely white supremacists everywhere, will be the undercard when he's sworn in as the President of the United States on January 21.
Which makes it all the more striking when D'Souza, the Trump-defending huckster, comes around to many of the same economic policy prescriptions as Flake, the Trump-abjuring would-be statesman.
And given that Trump is a longtime huckster who's feeling his way entirely by instinct, there should be a lot of skepticism about how well this is likely to turn out.
Even with Nixon now disgraced and carved into history as first a huckster and then a virulent racist, his legacy on indigenous rights, then and now, stands above all other presidents.
The next president should probably not pass deficit-busting tax cuts—instead, they ought to raise rates significantly and try to be more fiscally sane than a bankruptcy-prone reality TV huckster.
He's selling himself as the only solution to the very problem he is a symptom of, which means attacking him as a huckster will only make his core supporters love him more.
Wolf is a faced-paced, frequently comic look at the enthusiastically awful behavior of a real-life huckster; Equity is a grimmer, darker, more even-keeled story about corporate politics and gamesmanship.
" Action Park was created by Andy Mulvihill's father Eugene, whom Mr. Porges described as a "showman-huckster businessman, a mixture of P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney, with a little bit of Trump.
But his political opponents seized on the allegations, and angry former students spoke out, painting Mr. Trump as a huckster willing to rip off ordinary people in the name of personal profits.
If he was just a huckster and full of shit all the time and trying to put things over on people, I wouldn't have been interested enough to go through the whole thing.
Yet the film also dares us to write Mr. Robbins off as a huckster-genius; dipping behind the scenes, it exposes the intensive planning and detailed post-mortems that accompany each daily session.
Everett minds fame no more than anyone would, but the callow huckster figure some Chomskyans describe is actually a low-key, affable, intellectually omnivorous person, simply eager to share things he finds fascinating.
For all of the negative news coverage that he receives, there has also been a strand of analysis that insisted on, or at least sought, a silver lining to the golden-haired huckster.
Her one brush with performing was the Off Broadway play "My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis," where she portrayed Luscious Lucille, a pink-leotard-wearing huckster of a fitness plan in Atlantic City.
Calling Johnson "a huckster and populist manipulator," the magazine also decried Corbyn for his "reluctance to apologise for the anti-Semitism in Labour" and his failure to take a clear stance on Brexit.
We get Kyle MacLachlan spread out into three different bodies: Agent Cooper talking backwards in the Red Room, his evil doppelgänger wearing a lizard-skin shirt, and a louche Vegas huckster named Dougie Jones.
These misleading television commercials — showing positive, happy, peaceful scenes, as a background voice lists serious risks and possible complications in rapid huckster style — are for high-profit-margin drugs that are often extremely expensive.
The blistering remarks at a rally in Maine came hours after Mr. Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, savaged Mr. Trump as an immoral huckster who lacked the judgment or temperament to be president.
You're laughing at the racists you believe to be flanking Trump's rallies, meaning you're laughing at the "poorly educated," meaning you're laughing at the poor—emotionally and fiscally—being duped by this orange huckster.
"No peddler, vendor, hawker or huckster shall permit his car, wagon or vehicle to stand on any street when stopping, standing or parking is prohibited," city regulations state, according to the Department of Transportation.
Photo via Patrick PaigeWright's failure to move bitcoins from very early blocks in the blockchain has been taken by many in the Bitcoin community as evidence that he's a huckster, out for money or notoriety.
A huckster with big promises to spare, Carl Denham (Eric William Morris), "discovers" her and whisks her off to Skull Island, promising stardom but hoping to use her as bait for the monster that awaits.
A little more than eight months ago, the United States inaugurated one of its worst people as president, a nasty showbiz huckster whose own staffers speak of him as if he were a malevolent toddler.
But go a click in another and you'll find alt-right figures like Stefan Molyneux and Milo Yiannopoulos and conspiracy theorists like Mike Cernovich (the #PizzaGate huckster) and Alex Jones (the Sandy Hook shooting denier).
Besides being a huckster and a sexist weasel, D'Souza is a felon who, in 2014, pleaded guilty to routing illegal campaign donations through a woman he was having an affair with, and the woman's husband.
Having elevated a huckster weak on jihadist history and doctrine and unaware of what his own government has learned over decades, the Trump administration now risks exacerbating the very security challenges it hopes to surmount.
According to "American Huckster," a 2016 book about Mr. Blazer by Mary Papenfuss and Teri Thompson, he grew up in Queens and, as a boy, worked in the family businesses, a luncheonette and stationery store.
"If you are a huckster or a shyster, this is a great place to pull off the jiujitsu of conning people who think they can con dumb foreigners into coughing up their money," Farzad explained.
"Chambers" (created by the actress and writer Leah Rachel) works that angle hard, with Becky's father (Tony Goldwyn) burning sage for his guided meditations and a Native huckster selling "aura photographs" popular among Crystal Valley Instagrammers.
Eventually, the hubris of Leonardo DiCaprio's financial huckster Jordan Belfort catches up to him, his life is ruined, and the audience feels the guilt that accompanies the hangover as though we were also part of the party.
Trump tapped Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street snake investment huckster, to be the new communications director, a move that caused Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who The New York Times reported "vehemently disagreed with the appointment," to resign.
Before Trump was in the White House, this sort of hyperbole was largely regarded as an amusing component of his celebrity—who cared if this reality TV show huckster was a phony under an unrealistic pile of hair?
In reality, though, Laffer is a Svengali or huckster who holds unconscionable influence on one of America's two major parties, despite his ideas having been discredited—and not only by critics on the left—from the very beginning.
That is, if you're just blunting the edge of rampant inequality with a fortune you made preying on people who lack healthcare or a union or job security, you aren't exactly off the hook for being a capitalist huckster.
It's understandable that even a slick huckster like Jerry, played with an anxious smile by James Seol, has been led to the brink of a nervous breakdown in trying to come to terms with the nature of K-pop.
And considering that con artists are some of the best storytellers around and that Ms. Konnikova is one of the rare writers to make a great story vibrate with life, this seems, as a huckster might say, a missed opportunity.
It's a story that makes a certain kind of person feel good and powerful again, and it doesn't matter too much if a lot of that story is BS, or if that golden-haired man is really a two-bit huckster.
The idea that he is some chosen person whom God has taken from the life of real-estate huckster and philanderer is in keeping with notion of the born-again sinner who is given another chance through the grace of Jesus.
It is clear that the woman is trying to release past trauma and that the priest is a huckster (he asks for the salvation money upfront), and that she is being taken advantage of inside the confines of the darkened space.
Played by Lee Pace, star of ABC fantasy comedy series "Pushing Daisies", DeLorean comes over as a huckster, selling a hollow version of the American Dream, something Hamm said had contemporary relevance in a world where "buffoonery is somehow celebrated".
"No, we face some hard choices," she began, and I immediately smirked — "Hard Choices" was the title of her 2014 memoir on her years as secretary of state, and I figured she was clicking into huckster and sound-bite mode.
Was it more than a photo opportunity for an actress whose star was on the wane and a publicity-hungry huckster, or was there something about Mansfield's sex-positive persona that was attracted to the tenets of the Church of Satan?
These were the years when our collective sense of objective reality totally fell apart and when politics, business, technology, culture and even ordinary life fell fully under the sway of a new breed of swindler, huckster, influencer, troll and hacker.
Mr. Trump's allergy to empirical facts leads naturally to his attacks on the media, whose job it is to report accurately and to hold politicians to account for the things they say and do — goals that are anathema to a huckster.
The real-world implications don't end there: Parents of Sandy Hook victims are pursuing a defamation suit against Infowars huckster Alex Jones—a case on which Binkowski is consulting as an expert witness—for claiming the school shooting was a hoax.
Mr Vance is a conservative in the oldest and best sense, and his prescription is a bracing tonic for the poison being sold to his people by the pandering huckster seeking the presidency: "We hillbillies must wake the hell up," he urges.
While more orthodox Christians have kept him at arm's length or condemned him, he's wooed televangelists and prosperity preachers, and pitched himself to believers already primed to believe that a meretricious huckster with unusual hair might be a vessel of the divine will.
By now, Mr. Hartman had perfected the nuances — the pursed lips, narrow gaze and unplaceable New York accent — of a Trump character depicted as a shrewd casino huckster, who goads Ivana into losing her prenuptial agreement on a game of three-card monte.
" Russell, despite all the hazy adulation, is little more than a third-rate musician, a utopian huckster who knows how to snag depressed, unconfident young women with talk of building a new society "free from racism, free from exclusion, free from hierarchy.
It has become a tradition for the smug, in editorials and essay and confident Facebook boasting, to assume that the presidential debates will feature their candidate, in command of the facts, wiping the floor with the empty huckster ignorance of their Republican opponent.
Screenshot: PeriscopeConspiracy kingpin and Infowars huckster Alex Jones tried to "storm" the Google Fiber offices in Austin on Monday, which essentially entailed entering the building and babbling about a "big AI supermachine" before being asked to leave by Google Fiber staff and the police.
A scarf in the stars-and-stripes motif encircled his shoulders, and from his neck hung enough gold-and-diamond-encrusted chains to hobble Mr. T. Once he got behind a microphone, the huckster that lives within King animated his aged and weary frame.
It's no small part of the reason Red America threw up their hands, looking for any alternative to push back against the inanity, even if that pusher comes in the form of a medicine-show huckster like Trump, who was just crazy enough to take it on.
Characters like the professorial KnowsMore (Alan Tudyk, back from Wreck-It Ralph but with an entirely new character) put an anthropomorphic face and body to everyday web functions like the search bar, while pop-up ad huckster J.P. Spamley (Bill Hader) embodies the sleazier side of the internet.
Levels of post-election stress and anxiety have spiked dramatically across the country for people of all political affiliations as a tidal wave of problems has arisen from sitting in the backseat of a car recklessly driven by a dangerously under-qualified huckster in an ill-fitting red hat.
He's a symbol not of American strength but American grievance, the most prominent of a gang of has-beens and vigilantes and huckster losers, men like revenge fantasist Michael Anton, who once compared the 2016 election to the Flight 93 passengers who rushed the cockpit on 9/11.
Aside from Johnny Casper, Polito also played the studio flunky Lou Breeze in Barton Fink, the hero-worshiping detective Da Fino in The Big Lebowski, and the dry cleaning huckster Creighton Tolliver in The Man Who Wasn't There—he also had a small role as Mr. Bumstead in The Hudsucker Proxy.
"I grew up in the '90s and it was sort of at the end of this satanic panic that surrounded not just 'Dungeons and Dragons' but RPGs (role playing games) in general," Jeanneret, who plays Rikki Huckster on "Relics and Rarities," said in a video posted by Geek & Sundry Wednesday.
It contributes to the sentiment on the left that these people in rural areas who voted for a perceived huckster and demagogue are a lost cause, that now that these people cast their lot with this man, it is beyond conceivable to engage with them, understand them and empathize with them.
How are committed, pragmatic voters supposed to react when the person sold to them as not just the most "electable" person in this particular race, but among the most "electable" people in recent political history, loses a freak election to a preening, venal huckster who was treated as a great big joke for almost the entirety of the campaign?
You want to feel the pressure continually being applied, whether by that master huckster Richard Roma (Christian Slater, inheriting the role played in the 1992 film by Al Pacino) or by his older colleague Shelly "The Machine" Levene (Stanley Townsend), who will say anything if it allows him to close the deal on properties soon revealed to be worthless.
And Mulder's also always been a sucker for an attractive woman, which would explain why the episode spends a lot of time trying to set up weird romantic attachment between him and Sveta (as well as between Scully and O'Malley — which makes much less sense, as you'd think her huckster radar would be pinging like mad).
Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with Quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself.
While understandably skeptical of such astral flights and their pastel visions, Gottlieb is careful not to mock the credulous believers, reserving his disdain for the right-wing huckster and felon (now presidentially pardoned) Dinesh D'Souza, whose "Life After Death: The Evidence" tries to annex eschatology as another battlefield in the culture wars, where the Christian righteous smite the atheist rabble.
In July, the White House held a "social media summit," inviting far-right activists and influencers including QAnon-supporting radio host Bill Mitchell, Reddit troll Carpe Donktum, fringe social media huckster Ali Alexander, Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, and former BuzzFeed News reporter and current chief creative officer for Turning Point USA Benny Johnson.
Cook was invited to the White House in July for a "social media summit," joining fellow far-right activists and influencers, including QAnon-supporting radio host Bill Mitchell, fringe social media huckster Ali Alexander, Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, and former BuzzFeed News reporter and current chief creative officer for Turning Point USA Benny Johnson.

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