Hucksterize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Hucksterize is a verb meaning To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
Meaning
To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
Example Sentences
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.
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 unquenchable appetite for commodified prostheses, given to restlessly cruising the electronic mallworlds of information.
Word Forms
- hucksterizes
- hucksterizing
- hucksterized
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include huckster, higgle, huck, push, hustle, pimp.
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