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"sense": "somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"sense": "one who deceptively sells fraudulent products",
"word": "helppoheikki"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "one who deceptively sells fraudulent products",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "bonimenteur"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "barýga",
"sense": "one who deceptively sells fraudulent products",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "one who writes advertisements for radio or television",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Werbetexter"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "one who writes advertisements for radio or television",
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"To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle."
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"(transitive) To sell or offer (goods) from place to place, to peddle."
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"ref": "1972 November 27, T.E.K., “Kook in a Candy Store”, in Time, volume 100, number 22, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., The Theater, page 73:",
"text": "[…] Paul Zindel aroused the hope that he might be a playwright in the Williams mode, one who could cast a kindly light in the dark corners of twisted souls. That is precisely the hope dashed by his latest play, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild. Here he is simply huckstering kookdom for cheap laughs, and not producing many of them at that.",
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"To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner."
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"(transitive) To promote or sell (goods) in an aggressive, showy manner."
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