huckster
noun
a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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What trade there is is huckstering, not commerce.
From Rome in 1860 by Edward Dicey