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huckster

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huckster
1. a person who uses aggressive or questionable methods of selling
2. Now rare a person who sells small articles or fruit in the street


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At the corner of an alley a huckster and his wife had two tables set out with tapes, thread, cotton handkerchiefs, etc.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The old man was overjoyed, and pulled out his money en masse; whereupon the huckster loaded him with our common library.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Beyond all question, he had the blood of a petty huckster in his veins, through whatever channel it may have found its way there.
House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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