(v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
(v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
(v. t.) To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(2) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(3) "They peddle a range of avoidance schemes in the UK, which are estimated to cost the state £100bn each year in possible tax revenues," Mr Sikka said.
(4) He promised targeted powers to enable the UK to deal with the facilitators and cult leaders to stop them “peddling their hatred”.
(5) The MPs also chided the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , for peddling a price tag for his white paper proposals that was produced for the last government: "It is unhelpful for the government to continue to cite the £1.7bn figure, as it does not relate to specific proposals."
(6) Tories and their rich media friends peddle this despicable idea so that we can be gradually brought to think that taxation should not be used to pay for everyone’s health.
(7) It seemed to me watching the film that the concept of the cloud was another great piece of airy obfuscation on the part of the internet corporations, who like to peddle the childlike and the playful in the way that banks used to flog you credit cards called Smile and Egg and Marbles and Goldfish, to encourage you not to think too hard about the small print (what could possibly go wrong?).
(8) Outside, if you paid a euro, you could throw eggs at a Wilders's face, alongside the stallholders peddling 10-euro orange T-shirts with Will and Maxima depicted as the king and queen of hearts.
(9) Individuals have a duty to confront those peddling hatred and degrading others.
(10) One western official said Holbrooke found Cowper-Coles's insistence on peace negotiations "troubling"; another said that US officials blamed him for "peddling the idea that Karzai should be removed".
(11) Set in 1929, the Nazis are seen peddling their newspapers in the U-bahn; the writing is on the wall.
(12) So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong, but gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made.” Obama is scheduled to return from his vacation temporarily next Sunday.
(13) Gwynnie may come in for constant flak from the media, but when she's peddling a £200 coat for kids and claiming to be intolerant to dairy, gluten, wheat, corn and oats, you can start to see why.
(14) The vast majority of people who voted to leave the European Union did so because they believe it is best for Britain and not because they are intolerant of others.” European commission president decries attacks on Poles since Brexit vote Read more The letter calls on the government to do more to combat hate peddled by a “small minority”, as it also suggests there should be a review of the effectiveness of sentencing for hate crimes in England and Wales, including the ability to increase sentencing for hate crimes.
(15) An investigation into influence-peddling into this most sensitive of foreign policy areas is needed to get a sense of whether parliament or government is being corrupted.
(16) The use of "lad culture" to peddle the unfunny and ill-cultured is not unique to them – and indeed, to their credit, they seem to have retreated from the internet to lick their wounds.
(17) This intervention exposes the utter hypocrisy of the Vote Leave campaign when they accuse those who argue to stay in the EU of indulging people’s fears – peddling fear is precisely what the Vote Leave campaigns do every week,” he said.
(18) Japan, which has few of the former and none of the latter - is an obvious place to start peddling its wares.
(19) Not as a protest vote against the establishment, but as a strong voice of resistance against the politics of hate peddled by so many others.
(20) It's a classic example of the kind of influence peddling that knows no partisan bounds.
Tout
Definition:
(v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
(v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
(n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
(v. i.) To toot a horn.
(n.) The anus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
(2) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
(3) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
(4) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
(5) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
(6) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
(7) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
(8) Bush marked his 100 days with a barnstorming tour of six states in four days to tout his achievements.
(9) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(10) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
(11) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(12) Indeed, politicians of all stripes love to tout the adversity their parents overcame so that their children could be successful and live comfortably.
(13) At the event on Wednesday, Giuliani touted his record of surveilling mosques after the 1993 World Trade Center attack “I put undercover agents in mosques for the first time in January 1994,” he said.
(14) When Zuley came down, they were able to tout him as ‘Hell yeah, he’s just like you guys, he’s a detective’ and this and that,” Fallon said.
(15) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(16) Fiber is currently being touted as protection against colon cancer.
(17) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
(18) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
(19) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
(20) Three possible candidates touted to become Iran’s next supreme leader: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: The 80-year-old moderate politician was among the founding members of the Islamic republic and its president, from 1989 to 1997.