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peddler Definition

ped·dler (pedlər, ped'l ər)

noun

a person who peddles

Etymology: ME pedlare, pedlere < ? peddare, peddler < ped, pedde, a basket, via dim. pedle

peddler Synonyms

peddler

n.

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.

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