hard sell

noun

: aggressive high-pressure salesmanship compare soft sell

Examples of hard sell in a Sentence

Such an expensive project will be a hard sell during these slow economic times.
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Investors were not at all interested in a product centered around mental health, and this made the Calm app a hard sell. Renée Onque,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025 This is the one area where Panigrahi makes a truly hard sell. Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024 Back them, online was a hard sell for a market in which 70% of sales are made in-store. Kate Matthams, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Dropping a zero and cutting it in half was a hard sell to someone who doesn't hunt, fish or TRAP anything. Lisa Baker Gibbs My Roots Are Showing, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hard sell 

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hard sell was in 1945

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“Hard sell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20sell. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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