Huckstering

noun, verb

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Noun

1
The behavior of a huckster.
"Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong."

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of huckster form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

aggrandizement amplification ballyhoo big talk blowing up burlesque

Example

"Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong."

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