hucksterize

English

Etymology

huckster +‎ -ize

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.
   • 2002, Rob Latham, Consuming Youth, page 227:

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Goldfein, Europe's Macadam, America's Tar:

     They trigger it, and pander to it, by hucksterizing how Good and Great and The Best we are.

   • 2004, Robert K. C. Forman, Grassroots Spirituality, page 106:

     As a result, spirituality has been hucksterized, if you will, and in the eyes of many, cheapened.