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hucksterize

hucksterize verb: to hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.

Verb

hucksterize (third-person singular simple present hucksterizes, present participle hucksterizing, simple past and past participle hucksterized)

  1. To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
    • The shopping-mall metaphor is quite self-consciously deployed because, according to Sirius, "commerce is the ocean information swims in"; unapologetically libertarian, Mondo 2000 evokes and hucksterizes an elect audience of posthuman youth consumers, cyberbeings of undying pubescence with an...2002, Rob Latham, Consuming Youth, page 227
    • They trigger it, and pander to it, by hucksterizing how Good and Great and The Best we are.2004, Alan Goldfein, Europe's Macadam, America's Tar

Forms of hucksterize

third-person singular presenthucksterizes
present participlehucksterizing
past participlehucksterized
pasthucksterized

Origin of hucksterize

From huckster + -ize.

Questions about hucksterize

What does hucksterize mean?
Hucksterize means to hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
What part of speech is hucksterize?
Hucksterize is a verb.
What is the past tense of hucksterize?
The past tense of hucksterize is hucksterized.

Words near hucksterize in the dictionary

  1. huckstering
  2. hucksterings
  3. hucksterish
  4. hucksterism
  5. hucksterisms
  6. hucksterize
  7. hucksterized
  8. hucksterizes
  9. hucksterizing
  10. hucksters
  11. huckstery

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