Hucksterish

Word HUCKSTERISH
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Through a documentary crew's cameras, we follow a cheerfully cynical hucksterish preacher Cotton Marcus Patrick Fabian, a jobbing actor who you'll probably start noticing in everything after seeing this great performance, who, despite losing his faith long ago, still makes ends meet performing semi-lucrative exorcisms. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He's teasing us, of course – daring us to call him a showman-charlatan; a hucksterish Hitchcock of Hollywood homicide. ❋ John O'Connell (2010)

Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries". ❋ Unknown (2011)

But this story stands on its own merits, and I won't want the words and plain, pure images to be overshadowed and diminished by hucksterish hype. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The last Games exist largely as a foil for the present, and the Japanese, who have studied the hucksterish excesses of Atlanta well, have made no secret of their zeal to offer another -- better -- Olympic face to the world at Nagano this year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They had to make it into a site appropriate to publish news and information instead of the hucksterish combination of chat links, advertising come-ons and marketing displays that the Advance sites were before. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And I think, if he read the Bible at all -- and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of -- at all -- that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This was set up by a 'hucksterish publisher' named Henry Coburn nicknamed the Prince of Puffers, and it was designed to do two things: to puff Coburn's own publications and to hatchet those of his rival publishers. ❋ Michael Allen (2005)

NYTV had other matters to discuss with him anyway: like, how does he feel about having to interrupt the flow of the tense postseason games to do hucksterish voice-over promos for various NBC products like Third Watch and The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns? ❋ Unknown (1999)

However hucksterish and unrealistic, this wasn't just about moving bodies through turnstiles. ❋ By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN (2010)

Surprising too to hear Steve Jobs described in quite such a hucksterish guise too. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Congrats on the level-up:) 'Indestructible pearls' has a great ring to it -- a Gnostic sweatshop hucksterish kind of vibe. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Vegas embodied all those things, albeit in their most hucksterish, P. T. Barnum form it’s no coincidence that Thompson lights on the Circus Circus casino, with its schizophrenic disconnect, as the flash point of everything gone wrong. ❋ Peter Alson (2006)

And when he looked up Adelaide Road to his father’s shop on its watch upon the lane, he saw it for once not from his schoolfellows’ view, as a dowdy and hucksterish stores, but as his customers must see it: the last and least, but still part of the strip of well-to-do that hedged their lives. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

"in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute", it would be something of a "hucksterish choice". ❋ Unknown (2010)

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