(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.
Pedlar
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pedler
Example Sentences:
(1) In court, Mr Sheridan described the News of the World as "pedlars of falsehood, promoters of untruth, concerned only with sales, circulation and profit, not people's lives and truth".
(2) Misinformation pedlars appear to be shy woodland animals.
(3) His career as a pedlar of privacy stretches back into the 1990s, when he worked assiduously for the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.
(4) The pedlars of fake news are corroding democracy | Andrew Smith Read more On the one hand, the primacy of the market in the economic and social developments falling under the rubric of the fourth industrial revolution necessarily predispose elites to what we might call a managerial version of representative democracy – a system in which politicians see their first and foremost responsibility as ensuring voters don’t interfere with “sound economic management”.
(5) The campaign has caused alarm in the west and rights groups accuse Duterte of turning a blind eye to a wave of extrajudicial killings by police, mostly of low-level pedlars.
(6) Eventually the change will have to happen, with similar restrictions on advertising, sponsorship, display and accessibility to those imposed on the tobacco pedlars.
(7) Giulio had been out doing field work, talking to street pedlars, maybe six or seven times,” says one of his close friends in Cairo.
(8) Bogus claims about Barack Obama’s citizenship, say, or Britain’s payments to the European Union, are exposed, yet the claim-pedlars breeze on, unimpeded – they win.
(9) In 1872, the writer Augustus Mayhew appeared before his local magistrates charged with assaulting a female pedlar, and defended himself by pointing out that sometimes "he had as many as 38 persons in one day" knocking at his door.
(10) This neglect has helped open the gates to extremists and pedlars of hatred who have been allowed to prosper.
(11) One of the things that has happened in Egypt in the past few years, which we didn’t fully recognise, is that the street pedlars are frequently used as police informants,” said one Cambridge scholar, who preferred not to be named.
(12) Treatments included antiseptic solutions by 67 women (Dettol, Listerine, pHisohex); antibiotics by 31 (19 from drug stores or pedlars, 12 medically prescribed or injected); contraceptive diaphragms by 16.
(13) Since Duterte came to office seven months ago, thousands of suspected low-level pedlars but also alleged drug users have been gunned down in his war on drugs.
(14) Valerie Pedlar Southport • In connection with recent discussion on averages ( Letters, 2 & 3 December), we may conclude that in one respect Goering was above average (just taking into account the matter of size), Himmler was similar, Hitler was average, while poor old Goebbels was firmly below average.
(15) I am a pedlar of experiences that will end your childhood, and smother your innocence.
(16) Possibly the rival gossip pedlar with whom he had the most spats about exclusivity, dignity and prestige was Ross Benson (obituary, March 10 2005), who said of him with feline and persuasive malice: "He is a self-made man who has come to worship his creator."