peddler Definition
ped·dler (ped′lər, ped′'l ər)
noun
a person who peddles
Etymology: ME pedlare, pedlere < ? peddare, peddler < ped, pedde, a basket, via dim. pedle
peddler Synonyms
peddler Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- hate: The Internet has become a vehicle through, which these peddlers of hate can seek new recruits for their cause.
- fiction: Thankfully, the parents defied the peddlers of supernatural fiction in the Vatican.
- lie: In that light I would submit that comrade Matgamna is not only a peddler of cheap lies, but suffers from selective memory loss.
- design: Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture ( CRSC ) - ...and peddlers of intelligent design ' theory ' .
Converse of object
become: Too many scientists are becoming modern peddlers of snake oil under the insidious influence of the corporate culture.
Adjective modifier
- poor: One night a poor Italian peddler died in Roosevelt Street.
- big: While government wages war on drugs, it remains almost silent about these, the biggest drug peddlers of all - the tobacco barons.
- serial: We discuss how this has left consultants as serial fad peddlers, perhaps with more influence but delivering dubious genuine benefit.
Modifies a noun
florist: Single sleepers had as an inn a lone humpback whale fruit peddlers florists.
Noun used with modifier
- drug: The drug peddlers do not restrict their sales to inner cities.
- fish: Louis Fischer, the son of a fish peddler, was born in Philadelphia on 29th February, 1896.
- influence: John Roselli was a strategist, an influence peddler, a self declared patriot - an asset.
- dope: But Cambridgeshire CID wanted her to take zero tolerance a step further by giving them the names of the alleged dope peddlers.
- big-money: Norquist is the capo di capi of right-wing, big-money influence peddlers in Washington.
- fruit: Single sleepers had as an inn a lone humpback whale fruit peddlers florists.
Browse dictionary entries near peddler
- ‹ peddle
- ‹ pedate
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- ‹ pedantic
- ‹ pedant
- ‹ pedalfer
- ‹ pedal steel (guitar)
- ‹ pedal pushers
- ‹ pedal point
- ‹ pedal
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