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hucksterizing

hucksterizing is the present participle and gerund of hucksterize.

Meaning of hucksterize

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

Questions about hucksterizing

What is hucksterizing the present participle and gerund of?
Hucksterizing is the present participle and gerund of hucksterize.

Words near hucksterizing in the dictionary

  1. hucksterism
  2. hucksterisms
  3. hucksterize
  4. hucksterized
  5. hucksterizes
  6. hucksterizing
  7. hucksters
  8. huckstery
  9. huckstress
  10. huckstresses
  11. hucow

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