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hucksterize

verb

Etymology

From huckster + -ize.

  1. derived from *kuk-néh₂✻
  2. derived from *huk-✻
  3. derived from hokester
  4. derived from höken — “to peddle”
  5. inherited from hukster
  6. suffixed as hucksterize — “huckster + ize”

Definitions

  1. To hawk

    To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.

    • They trigger it, and pander to it, by hucksterizing how Good and Great and The Best we are.
    • As a result, spirituality has been hucksterized, if you will, and in the eyes of many, cheapened.

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