hucksterism
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈhʌkstərɪzəm/
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venta agresiva
- The less fortunate aspects—overreach and arrogance, religiosity and contempt for the masses, hucksterism and emotional manipulation—will reappear in the form of some new movement.
Examples
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It's clear early on in the film that Plainview and Sunday's different brands of hucksterism run on parallel railroad tracks.
Blog text (25) -
On our way back to my mother's apartment, we got caught in an Amsterdam Avenue street fair and were nudged off our paths by the amiable tumult, by the free-form hucksterism that totally obscured the fair's civic auspices.
Fiction book (2002) -
Good ole American hucksterism hard at work.
Blog text (11) -
The real problem nowadays, I think, is not hucksterism, but political correctness.
Blog text (18) -
Hucksterism has long been a part of politics, but Gingrich's style of hucksterism is uniquely well suited to the internet age.
Blog text (5) -
It puts a pall of hucksterism on the whole affair.
Blog text (28) -
While many mediators contend that standards and regulations are inappropriate, many other experienced mediators say they already see an element of hucksterism.
Academic text (1996) -
Materialism, consumerism, and commercial hucksterism exclusively drive content, and TV is now even being used, obviously, to just dumb down viewers while keeping them entertained and oblivious to what's really going on.
Blog text (9) -
It didn't so much mark a new era of Hollywood as take the corporate Hollywood that was already in gear and kick it up another notch or two of visually narcotizing hucksterism.
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The advertisement for the product relied heavily on hucksterism to attract customers with exaggerated claims.
Synonyms
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3.2
A short talk to convince someone to buy something
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8.0
A dishonest plan to trick people and take their money
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5.3
A strong, pushy effort to make someone buy something
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9.8
Use of clever but false arguments to trick people
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8.3
Claims that exaggerate product benefits and are not meant literally
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9.7
Dishonest words or actions that try to trick people
A pushy method to make people buy things
A message that tries too hard to get you to buy something
Too much promotion by people who try to make something seem better than it is
A sudden strong campaign to sell many products quickly to gain market share
Cheating people to get their money or an advantage
Antonyms
How Aggressive
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6.3
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838
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hucksterism comes from huckster, an old word for a loud street 'seller' who used tricks and big promises to make people buy. So hucksterism means the practice of pushy, flashy, or deceptive selling that tries to persuade people.