How to Use huckster in a Sentence

huckster

noun
  • This place is a huckster’s dream.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But his spiel on the debate stage has more than a trace of the huckster.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Del Toro was such an amiable huckster.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • There are too many hucksters out there simply looking to make a quick buck.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
    — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Luhrmann seems more interested in the huckster than in the artist.
    — New York Times, 23 June 2022
  • But Cooper was a huckster who took more than a swig of his own Kool-Aid.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Could Odenkirk’s fast-talking huckster hold the weight of an entire drama?
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
  • His rude personal style ruffles the feathers of many who see him as a pretender or a huckster.
    — John Kass, Twin Cities, 1 June 2017
  • Hire someone to help you if need be and be mindful of the vast amount of internet website hucksters.
    — Wayne Bell, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • But what if the next group of hucksters for whom Watkins serves as a mouthpiece has more nefarious goals?
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Suddenly, Geller seemed like a workaday huckster and the world seemed a little duller.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Inevitably, these hucksters and screw-ups used their particular talents to help the needy.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.
    — David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Some became performers and hucksters, craftspeople and con artists, drifters and thieves.
    — Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Martin Luther King must not be used as a huckster for some corporation.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Few media hucksters cared about that aspect of Haynes’s progressivism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Idaho was named, in the eighteen-sixties, by a frontiersman huckster who claimed to speak Shoshone.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • For the new teammates, going after the crypto hucksters is the route to big recoveries.
    — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • How to tell a true from a false prophet, the real Christ, returned in glory, from a dime-store messiah with a huckster’s charm?
    — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There’s no disputing that the fledgling crypto industry is filled with hucksters, con artists, and get-rich-quick scammers.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 30 June 2018
  • With cheeky editing and winking chyrons, the director is very transparent in his awareness that his star is a huckster.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
  • The truth is, the claim of a fantastical, secret gay agenda is only about fear, control and huckster shenanigans.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Jan. 2018
  • But the only thing these fraudulent hucksters have the courage to die for are Wayne LaPierre’s talking points.
    — Alex Siquig, GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The Wizard is presented as a turn-of-the-century fairground huckster.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Florida emerges from your book as a pretty tawdry place, full of hucksters, corrupt politicians, and gun-toting maniacs.
    — National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2016
  • And Democrats, no longer confident that an unserious huckster was destined to lose, were not at all complacent.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Genius or huckster — he’s been called both — Musk is an expert at taking techno-dreams and making them at least seem realistic.
    — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Far-right huckster Jacob Wohl has been accused of launching a robocall scheme aimed at voter suppression.
    — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
  • By this light, the president’s deification is not the strange mania of easy marks, keen to be hoodwinked by a trashy gratifying huckster.
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021

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