0 a method of selling in which the person selling tries very hard to persuade the customer to buy something --
1 something that is difficult to get people to do or try: --
2 something that is difficult to persuade people to do or try: --
3 a forceful way of trying to persuade someone to buy or do something: --
Once at the presentation, all who have complained to me state that the technique was hard sell.
They are being subjected to a dubious type of hard sell, and not an accurate description of the facts.
We are being approached on the doorstep with a hard sell from people from an electricity company asking us to take their gas.
There was no question of a hard sell of a plot and the conversation ended amicably.
That goes against the prevailing official ideology and the hard sell by producers.
Secondly, there really must be much stronger constraints on the hard sell.
Getting that message across requires a fairly hard sell.
Civilised and democratic societies should not be engaging in the kind of hard sell advocated here.
