Definition of "huckstering" [huckstering]

• Present participle of huckster. (verb)

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• "These matters can be dealt with much more happily and less formally by other avenues of approach and it appears to me that one of the most useful things we could do is to see that, in matters of the mind and the spirit, we re-establish intercommunication among the nations of the earth, perhaps, most of all, among our own people in the Empire and revive a new and different spirit than in the merely trafficking-I was going to say "huckstering" - spirit which, to a large extent has dominated our interest."
• "Or, as Churchill warned of that particular system when it came up for debate in 1931, many constituencies would be "determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates," while "the same bargaining and huckstering will go on. . . but then it will all be done individually, in holes and corners.""
• "This sort of fickle and unprincipled governance — governance by haggling and huckstering — has been going on for over a year, and it shows no signs of ending."