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peddling

[ UK /pˈɛdlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɛdəɫɪŋ, ˈpɛdɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of selling goods for a living

How To Use peddling In A Sentence

  • In peddling the cheesesteak as a dining option, he noted that restaurants in other parts of the country don't know how to make a proper cheesesteak.
  • What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
  • What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forms of peddling would change and evolve, but street selling remained part of the urban economic, social and cultural fabric in urban America well after the wave of anti-noise regulation discussed here.
  • The Government is not peddling a myth; it is trying to escape from a horror story. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here, the character Ms. Kudrow plays is far from sympathetic—she's psychotherapist Fiona Wallice, a charlatan, and a remorseless, self-obsessed one, busy peddling what she's fond of describing as her new "treatment modality. Therapy as Shock Treatment
  • The article recommends writing about your sex life, getting fired for writing a weblog and peddling extreme opinions.
  • This was not a line he was peddling, this was his heartfelt conviction. Times, Sunday Times
  • However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock.
  • You may trot around with a silver bunch of grapes on your lapel, peddling intoxicants to expense-account tosspots and huff when I quibble at the mark-up but I have just published the novelistic fruit of 35 years of miserable introversion.
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