Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hucksterize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: huck-ster-ize
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From huckster + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: huckster

Inflected Forms

hucksterizes (present, singular) hucksterizing (participle, present) hucksterized (participle, past) hucksterized (past)

Questions

What does hucksterize mean?: To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
Where does hucksterize come from?: From huckster + -ize.

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