Huckstering

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Huckster \Huck"ster\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huckstered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Huckstering}.]
     To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. --Swift.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "huckstering":
     aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up,
     burlesque, caricature, consumer preference study,
     consumer research, consumer survey, dilatation, dilation,
     direct-mail selling, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating,
     exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance,
     extreme, grandiloquence, hard sell, hawking, heightening,
     high-pressure salesmanship, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation,
     inordinacy, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, magnification,
     mail-order selling, market research, marketing, marketing research,
     merchandising, overemphasis, overestimation, overkill,
     overstatement, peddling, prodigality, profuseness, promotion,
     puffery, puffing up, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion,
     salesmanship, selling, sellout, sensationalism, soft sell,
     stretching, superlative, tall talk, touting, travesty,
     wholesaling