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O que (quem) é huckster - definição

VENDOR, USUALLY WITH BIASED INFORMATION AND PUSHY OR SHOWY TACTICS
Hucksterism
  • Itinerant medicine salesmen were often known as "hucksters"
  • Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging. [[United States Senate]], [[107th United States Congress]]. First Session. Washington, D.C. Serial No. 107-14.
  • Women huckstering from ''The Irish Sketch-Book'', 1845

huckster         
¦ noun
1. a person who sells small items, either door-to-door or from a stall.
2. N. Amer. a person who uses aggressive selling techniques.
¦ verb N. Amer.
1. promote or sell aggressively.
2. bargain; haggle.
Derivatives
hucksterism noun
Origin
ME: prob. of Low Ger. origin.
huckster         
n.
Retailer, hawker, pedler, hucksterer.
Huckster         
·noun A mean, trickish fellow.
II. Huckster ·vi To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains.
III. Huckster ·noun A retailer of small articles, of provisions, and the like; a peddler; a hawker.

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Huckster

A huckster is anyone who sells something or serves biased interests, using pushy or showy tactics. Historically, the term meant any type of peddler or vendor, but over time it has assumed pejorative connotations.

Exemplos do corpo de texto para huckster
1. It was, rather, a commune and tourist trap created in the 1'20s by a white–supremacist huckster.
2. Upon his election, Lincoln was derided as a "huckster" and a "first–rate second–rate man," wholly unprepared to save the Union.
3. He suggests that they notice the health revolution afflicting yuppies in leg warmers (a totally alien species for Cedar Hole). A fortune could be made selling high–priced water to these city types, the huckster declares.
4. Faith, hope and the Christmas message Mohammed now second most popular boys‘ name in Britain Dr Huckster was among six residents speaking in opposition to the plans, revealed in the Oxford Mail in November.
5. Talen –– in a blond bouffant, priest‘s collar and white suit, and using his best quavering, booming preacher‘s voice –– casts himself somewhere between parody and earnestness, a huckster and truth–teller in this country‘s tradition of self–proclaimed ministers.