peddle

verb

ped·dle ˈpe-dᵊl

peddled; peddling ˈped-liŋ

ˈpe-dᵊl-iŋ

Synonyms of peddle next

intransitive verb

: to travel about with wares for sale

broadly : sell

peddling without a license

: to be busy with trifles : piddle

transitive verb

: to sell or offer for sale from place to place : hawk

broadly : sell

They peddled fruits and vegetables from a truck on the side of the road.

: to deal out or seek to disseminate

peddling personal advice—

G. F. Kennan

: to offer or promote as valuable

peddled snake oils and miracle lotions

Examples of peddle in a Sentence

They peddled fruits and vegetables out of their truck on the side of the road. He peddled his idea for a new movie to every executive in Hollywood. The mayor's aides tried to peddle his innocence to reporters.

Recent Examples on the Web The dumbed-down trope about race and class in America that Hollywood has always peddled. —

Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023 Painkiller is based on real events and a real pharmaceutical company that peddled a highly addictive painkiller across the US. —

Korin Miller, Women's Health, 16 Aug. 2023 In 2019, while peddling odd contacts and vampire-fang gold fronts through her goth-coven’s Facebook page, the aspiring rapper sold a pair of cats’ eyes to Drake — who gained Gwapula a half-million followers by retweeting her site. —

Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 10 Aug. 2023 Staring into a web camera while wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope, Gordon Hunter Pedersen spent the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic peddling silver products as a fraudulent cure for the disease, prosecutors say. —

Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023 The company became wildly successful for peddling the drug OxyContin, which was widely blamed for the ongoing opioid addiction crisis across the country. —

Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023 The kind of authoritarianism that Claremont is peddling did not happen to the conservative movement by accident. —

Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023 The movement’s de facto leader, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is running for president, peddling his conspiracy theories and debunked pseudoscience to an enormous new audience. —

Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023 The GOP has accused Joe and Hunter Biden of influence peddling and accepting bribes. —

Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023 See More

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