Example Sentences

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If you’re familiar with hucksterish home shows, such a label sounds like so much real estate hype.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Like that 2005 movie, Peter Farrelly’s interracial buddy dramedy is insultingly glib and hucksterish, a self-satisfied crock masquerading as an olive branch.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2019

As in many contributions to the genre that Samuel Smiles, only a year after “Manly Health” first appeared, would christen “Self-Help,” there’s something provisional and hucksterish about Whitman’s proscriptions, an eagerness for validation.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2017

In just 180 pages, Jones manages to be brilliant about painting, French literature and history, the sociology of emotional expression, and the hucksterish early history of the dental profession.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2014

Casinos, high-rise hotels and hucksterish come-ons have so proliferated in Niagara Falls, Ontario, that it risks feeling like a tired amusement park.

From New York Times • May 26, 2011