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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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The story centers on the opposites-attract relationship between the brash eponymous showman and his no-nonsense Yankee wife, Chairy; she disapproves of his hucksterism, but she's a good sport and is generally supportive.
After six weeks of pounding the Manhattan pavement in search of "college graduate" positions--carrying with me, and I wince at this now, a remaindered hardcover copy of Nabokov's Ada as my downtime reading matter--I got a job as the most sullen and undermotivated advertising trainee in the history of hucksterism.
In reality, Meyssan represents only a small fringe on the far left of French politics, and his 9/11 materials have been denounced as disinformation and hucksterism by political and media representatives spanning the spectrum of French political thought, including many of those who strongly oppose U.
 
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