What's the difference between peddled and peddler?
Peddled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Peddle
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.
Peddler
Definition:
(n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(2) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
(3) Though a cultured man, who himself wrote poetry, Barnett Rosenberg took up work as a peddler, selling household goods such as shoelaces and buttons door to door in the West Country.
(4) "In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington."
(5) Ukip is a party of con artists, myth peddlers, charlatans and professional shysters.
(6) Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Since Stephen King published The Shining in 1977, his literary reputation has risen from peddler of schlock-horror to master of smalltown America's fears and dreams, both real and supernatural.
(7) The public is an easy mark for the "health peddler" who lacks credentials but possesses effective motivational skills and speaks with conviction about unfounded promises and exaggerated outcomes.
(8) Christian convert from Hinduism; peddler of Muslim “no-go zone” nonsense.
(9) Peddler calls are a common sound, too, as they sell vegetables and household products door-to-door.
(10) A survey conducted by discount vouchers peddlers VoucherCodesPro has revealed that one in five people admit to stealing items at supermarket self-service checkouts , adding up to £1.6bn worth of items every year, so frustrated are they with the ineptitude of their surrogate machine slaves.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The peddlers of fear are playing a dangerous game’.
(12) Chris Turner A buzzy run on the Edinburgh Fringe was followed by a US recording deal for this young pun-peddler, comedy rapper and erstwhile BBC New Comedy award finalist.
(13) National bath-bomb peddlers Lush (to jog your memory: those handmade soap shops that give off such a pungent whiff that their exterior is usually blighted by at least one hyperventilating shopper using the outside wall as physical support) is in the news today because it has heroically stood up to Amazon as part of a legal battle over the latter's use of the word "lush" to market rival lines of cosmetics.
(14) Major Abarca, who is among those alleged to be responsible for the crisis, was a former peddler of hats turned jeweller who owned a commercial mall (built in a estate donated by the Mexican army).
(15) Mitt Romney attempted to revive his flagging presidential campaign with a frontal assault on Newt Gingrich's ethics at the Republican debate in Tampa, accusing him "working as an influence peddler" and repeatedly reminding voters he was sacked as party leader in Congress for unethical behaviour.
(16) But when these sleaze-peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue."
(17) Those powerbrokers often value loyalty over quality in the selecting of parliamentary candidates, their backroom influence disenfranchises most party members who – not surprisingly – leave, and this structure opens the real risk of corruption, because influence peddlers thrive best when power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
(18) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
(19) But I don't believe that they anticipated coming off quite that badly against a man they dismiss as a peddler of "dangerous fantasies".
(20) Sale of modern medicines by untrained peddlers, general merchants, and other drug sellers is common throughout the developing world.