How to Use huckster in a Sentence

huckster

noun

• But his spiel on the debate stage has more than a trace of the huckster.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• To the people who doubted him, Williams was a huckster.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• But Cooper was a huckster who took more than a swig of his own Kool-Aid.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
• Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
  — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
• Trump, too, was a brash huckster who despised the élites that had always spurned him.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2021
• Luhrmann seems more interested in the huckster than in the artist.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• There are too many hucksters out there simply looking to make a quick buck.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Could Odenkirk’s fast-talking huckster hold the weight of an entire drama?
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• Suddenly, Geller seemed like a workaday huckster and the world seemed a little duller.
  — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Inevitably, these hucksters and screw-ups used their particular talents to help the needy.
  — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• For the new teammates, going after the crypto hucksters is the route to big recoveries.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 8 May 2023
• Martin Luther King must not be used as a huckster for some corporation.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• The Wizard is presented as a turn-of-the-century fairground huckster.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2021
• The father, Rory (Jude Law), is a British finance broker with a huckster’s appetite for big bets (and a talent for big losses).
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2020
• Eli move like a dastardly Robert Mitchum-esque huckster?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
• 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
• While some of it feels jokey, another part of me suspects that the romantic notion of the gentleman thief, the huckster in a tuxedo, has found a stronghold in this place.
  — Soleil Ho, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
• The Fetterman campaign gained ground by portraying Oz as a huckster whose true home is New Jersey.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2022
• Some became performers and hucksters, craftspeople and con artists, drifters and thieves.
  — Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
• Novelists huckster for clothing chains, jazzmen record for Muzak and Lawrence Welk, poets write advertising copy and folk singers fink out when the chips are down.
  — Ralph J. Gleason, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
• And one of the things his presence is going to do is remind everyone of just how hijacked the Lakers have been by Ball, who has never been just a harmless huckster.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• At the turn of the 20th century, the trans huckster Harry Allen was a notorious outlaw in the Pacific Northwest.
  — Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• First came Michael Wolff, the author and journalistic huckster whose book making bold claims about what happened behind the scenes at the White House was irresistible for the left and the media alike.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• More than a century ago, hucksters peddled magic elixirs from wagons.
  — David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024