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peddler

[ ped-ler ]

noun

  1. a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
  2. a person who tries to promote some cause, candidate, viewpoint, etc.


peddler

/ ˈpɛdlə /

noun

  1. a person who sells illegal drugs, esp narcotics
  2. the usual US spelling of pedlar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of peddler1

1350–1400; Middle English pedlere, unexplained variant of peder, derivative of ped ( de ) basket
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Example Sentences

The Onion, a satirical news site that satirizes current affairs and the journalists who cover it, said on Thursday that it had won the bankruptcy auction to control Infowars and other media outlets founded by Alex Jones, a far-right peddler of conspiracy theories.

From Salon

As Jesus Diaz recently wrote in Fast Company, “Apple has lost its customer-first design vision on its way to becoming the world’s most lucrative company” and is now “a massive peddler of commoditized consumer electronics and services that are practically indistinguishable from the competition’s.”

From Slate

I would have thought that Samir, a master peddler, would have a distaste for someone so clumsy in the art.

One thing that McCarthy is apparently not interested in, say several people who have spoken with him, is raking in big bucks an an influence peddler.

Last August, shortly after Elon Musk revoked Twitter’s ban of Dom Lucre—a far-right conspiracist and peddler of child sexual abuse imagery—the fringe influencer shared a hazy “photo” of Trump at a Black-hosted cookout and asked, “Why is Obama never in the hood?”

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