How To Use Peddling In A Sentence
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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.
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What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The Government is not peddling a myth; it is trying to escape from a horror story.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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The article recommends writing about your sex life, getting fired for writing a weblog and peddling extreme opinions.
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This was not a line he was peddling, this was his heartfelt conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
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However crass and tawdry this influence-peddling may be, it hardly comes as a shock.
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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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What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can someone explain to me why on earth an institution of higher learning is involved in the peddling of the last legal drug?
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Washington Examiner editorial: Clinton is again peddling the argument that a new wave of domestic terrorism is coming this time because millions of Tea Partying Americans have during the past year or more taken to the streets to protest.
Think Progress » Right-Wing Media Distorts Clinton’s Oklahoma City Speech To Claim He Wants To Muzzle Dissent
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Huddleston, the New Hampshire president, says colleges are justified in moving to have accounts closed if they are peddling misinformation in the guise of a campus authority figure in a way that could cause harm.
College presidents around USA impersonated on Twitter
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Mr. Powell, I respected you because you were the only level headed republican, but now this back peddling is really bothersome.
Powell calls Palin a 'fascinating figure'
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In other words, another blog-filled, content-poaching, reactive, 'snackable' website that survives on paid advertorials and the peddling of readers' data.
Times, Sunday Times
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This caricature laden snark peddling is what passes for comedy and political insight nowadays (though it has existed for ages).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Much Easier to Fight Caricatures
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Much of what they passed off as political analysis was little better than rumor-mongering and garbage-peddling.
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It might be his wares they were peddling, but there was no way he wanted any official connection to them.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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Are the media still merchandising Jessica Lynch now that she's peddling a book and a made-for-TV movie?
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NKOTBSB, a perturbing amalgamation of 90s boybands New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys, are also peddling their ballads on a global tour this spring.
Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here
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All I can tell you is anybody who thinks that a No will have a positive impact on any part of the country is dreaming in technicolour and is peddling an illusion to the Canadian people.
Canada and the Constitution
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He's also writing lots of magazine articles, updating his website, publishing every issue of The Realist online and, in his spare time, maintaining what he calls his "cottage industry"-- peddling a digitally colored edition of the infamous "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" parody, created by Mad magazine artist Wally Wood and first published in 1967 as a centerspread in The Realist.
Michael Sigman: Satirist Paul Krassner Turning 80, Going Strong
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Although the custom has since curtailed, in Chaucer's time it was common for pardoners - dealers in pardons - to travel the countryside peddling their ‘wares’.
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The paper provides no URL to the i-doser sites allegedly peddling these aural intoxicants, so there's no way for the reader to investigate the psychoactivity of the beats themselves.
Slate Magazine
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A gang of evil drug dealers have been put behind bars for a total of nearly 20 years for peddling cocaine, Ecstasy and amphetamines.
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And he accused them of peddling the ‘myth’ that only a few were brainy enough to do well.
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Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
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The ruined city of Vakith stood deserted, but the distant memory of children playing or merchants peddling their wares echoed in Drakas' ears.
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I could not care less about buying the stuff Starbucks is peddling, be it edible, drinkable or hearable … everything is unbearable
Hi Apple? I’d like an iPhone, but hold the phone. | Sync Blog
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Be careful if you are looking for help online because some websites are peddling counterfeit drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some peddling attorney, however, had ‘unadvisedly’ made its reversion expectant on the death of Morris.
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Two men were arrested, suspected of peddling drugs.
The Sun
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Essentially, we had pretended to be representatives of a British defense firm peddling handheld thermal imagers to the Indian army.
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We find petty traders and hawkers eking out a living by peddling a few ribbons, a pair of galoshes, or low-quality tobacco, and ordinary men and women, who resorted to selling their personal belongings at markets.
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One significant exception was the running "sleaze" scandal in the mid-90s where the Sunday Times and the Guardian exposed various aspects of cash-for-questions and other forms of influence peddling involving MPs are peers.
The Guardian World News
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Whether they can actually negotiate voluntary restraints remains unclear, since presumed offenders are peddling cut-rate steel in part to keep shaky economies afloat.
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We must stop peddling this filth at our kids immediately.
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While it's often referred to as "match-fixing," these practices are closer to influence peddling-trying to tilt the close calls in your favor.
Slate Articles
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Trading standards chiefs found street sellers peddling the furry pandas, rabbits, cats and dogs in Rochdale and Oldham.
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Instead of peddling drugs and booze, they now peddled women.
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Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
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Men combined agriculture with seasonal migrant work, charcoal burning, woodcutting, and peddling, while women took up wet-nursing, spinning, and weaving.
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But, unfortunately, now is not the time for soft-peddling the truth like this (if e'er a time there be).
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The Government is not peddling a myth; it is trying to escape from a horror story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unsavoury reputation of the place as a drug-peddling hub could be one reason.
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Today, the mapping agency is peddling special incentives for map-makers who leave their cars at home.
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In 1990, peddling himself to the voters as a successful businessman, he was elected governor.
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He needs that if he's going to carry on peddling the line that we're all in this together.
The Sun
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Earlier in the day, a mere block from our casita, my husband had seen a "butcher" setting up shop, peddling from the tailgate of his truck what looked suspiciously like butchered goat meat.
The lady is a tramp - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias
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Be careful if you are looking for help online because some websites are peddling counterfeit drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
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The world mostly knows TKO as a label peddling quality punk rock from acts such as Antiseen, Cock Sparrer and CH3.
Undefined
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Calvinism is at the heart of the current teabagger movement, which has been peddling all the right-wing evangelical social dogma as if it were Holy Writ.
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism
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By the way, all the folks pillorying Matt for supposedly peddling a “guilt-by-association” argument are themselves using an inane, broad brush stroke argument.
Matthew Yglesias » Kucinich Sides With Insurance Industry, GOP to Oppose “Insurance Industry Giveaway”
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The biggest Y2K doomsayers were the computer consultants who raked in big bucks peddling prophylactic programming.
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Produced and directed by Hank Bedford, this short followed the extremely energetic (and possibly Ritalin deficient) road warrior gearing up for another summer of peddling educational books.
Competitive Shorts Showcased at the Backlot Film Festival
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Christopher will be back swearing, pimping, robbing convenience stores and peddling drugs within days.
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Instead he is faced with fake holymen peddling religious enmity and the purblind nouveau riche materialism of his family who bypass the country's problems in their smart new cars.
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Similarly, the situation in Cuba should remind us that "strength" is not a politician puffing out his chest and pigheadedly walking into the very caricatures our enemies have been peddling, so as to potentially alienate indigenous populations that may have otherwise been sympathetic to our goals.
Bush Walks Right Into Castro's Trap
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There are only about a thousand real addicts in Britain, and nobody is going to make a fortune peddling heroin because the addicts can get it on prescription.
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Thornhill has been peddling his rape thesis for years without much attention.
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Whether intentional or through ignorance, the blog in question is peddling lies.
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All the while peddling your peculiar mix of mystic gnostic astrologic nonsense.
As others see them - The Panda's Thumb
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Do you know how hard it is to find plain old black shoes with covered toes, when all everyone is peddling seems to be strappy sandals in pink and blue?
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When I was at teacher training college in the early 1980s they were peddling the same lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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And he explained that the college lecture circuit was full of speakers peddling this propaganda.
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However, he was convicted on a third charge of influence peddling which drew a sentence of two years in prison plus a fine of four million Malagasy ariary (1,865 dollars, 1,573 euros) and two million ariary in damages, the officials said, citing the verdict read by Judge Herinavalona Randriarilala.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She understood the look, she knew what the Valium did, or the Librium, or whatever new pill it was that the doctors were peddling.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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Continue peddling misery and you risk self-parody.
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In 1990, peddling himself to the voters as a successful businessman, he was elected governor.
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This whole ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ crap the Repugs are peddling is a crock!
Think Progress » Bunning finally stops hurting millions of Americans, gives up blocking unemployment benefits.
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But, unfortunately, now is not the time for soft-peddling the truth like this (if e'er a time there be).
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He spent his early 20s peddling dope and stolen cars, and making bogus stock trades.
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she went peddling furiously up the narrow street
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When I was at teacher training college in the early 1980s they were peddling the same lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, peddling excuses as earlier clerics quoted psalms, he goes on a gabble about her ‘dignity’ - did the dead dog have a pedigree, do you think?
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A suspect in a major investigation into a drugs gang that had a nationwide network peddling heroin is believed to be back in Britain.
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But when low grades kept him from attending college, he hit the streets, peddling crack cocaine.
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The ruined city of Vakith stood deserted, but the distant memory of children playing or merchants peddling their wares echoed in Drakas' ears.
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I have never believed them to be uninfluential, whether peddling love, politics, sex, violence or corruption.
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If the Feds were going to hunt him for peddling porn, why pay taxes to finance their cause?
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A buddy back in those days, who loved to sound off about rock music in an infuriatingly cerebral way, was fond of peddling the theory that the genre could be cleaved into two distinct halves.
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Such tactics merely disguise the fact that the avant-garde of the art world has been peddling more or less the same idea for over eighty years.
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They work in telesales, peddling advertising space in magazines specializing in second-hand cars, DIY, computing, kitchens and bathrooms.
CHAMELEON
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A Hudson Institute analyst peddling a paper on Russian thoughts on cyberwar fell for it and when confronted aggressively argued that it was true because, well, just because.
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What good do you do anyone by writing verses, getting cash for silly slanders, peddling iambs as a huckster peddles trash?
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He needs that if he's going to carry on peddling the line that we're all in this together.
The Sun
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This was not a line he was peddling, this was his heartfelt conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was like peddling your guts out to get up a hill, only to freewheel down the other side.
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The Tory critics object that the Church is peddling left-wing politics as a religious message, while failing to assert moral values.
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Your crusade to unseat them by peddling exaggerations and half-truths lowers you to their level.
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Just look at the competition-McCain peddling the same old Republican crapola that brought us to near financial ruin and the Wassila Hillbilly.
Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’
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The Rev. Ian Dingwall is an acolyte in the peddling of meaningless drivel masquerading as Christianity; the medium is the Niagara Anglican paper, the audience is almost all gone and the message is a swirling feculence making its way down the plug-hole of eternity:
2009 November « Anglican Samizdat
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And yet he often was right, and always courageous and eloquent enough to challenge received opinion and sacred cows Mother Teresa for one, whom he called the Albanian dwarf famous for peddling an antiquated form of religious fundamentalism.
Roger Housden: Hitchens: Arch-Fundamentalist?
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But this kind of hyperventilation and fear-mongering is the GOP stock in trade, so it's no surprise that both Mr. McCain and Mr. Gingrich are out there peddling it.
Worst Ever?
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Be careful if you are looking for help online because some websites are peddling counterfeit drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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While all peddling of honours is reprehensible, the sale of peerages is most serious because it trades a seat in the legislature.
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Be careful if you are looking for help online because some websites are peddling counterfeit drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trickle down theory does not work, yet some people persist in peddling it.
Think Progress » Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was ‘Lecturing’
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And Midge, Don's one-time Bohemian lover, is a heroin junkie peddling her paintings and even herself for the next fix.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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She understood the look, she knew what the Valium did, or the Librium, or whatever new pill it was that the doctors were peddling.
FIELD OF BLOOD
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The unsavoury reputation of the place as a drug-peddling hub could be one reason.
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Chief among the falsehoods they have spent the past two years robo-peddling ad nauseam is the narrative of the infallible Tim Geithner's sage stewardship of the economy, a narrative that hinges largely on the heroic success of the TARP, one of the few multibillion dollar Wall Street bailout programs Geithner himself played almost no part in designing.
The Washington Post's TARP Mythmaking, A Recent History
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Ahead of me, a moustachioed middle-aged man is peddling toward me.
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The young émigré began by packaging and peddling lanolin - sheep oil - disguising the odor with extracts of lavender, pine bark, and water lilies.
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While peddling poisonous subprime loans, dozens of Congressional members actually betted against the housing market prior to the 2008 crash and their investments outperformed the market by over 12 percent.
Reshma Saujani: A New Ethic of Leadership in Broken Washington
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About the same time (mid-90's), in many other magazines, the British were proudly parading (and peddling) their purpose-built, "Arctic Warfare" sniper rifle built by Accuracy International.
Savagery in South Dakota
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Be careful if you are looking for help online because some websites are peddling counterfeit drugs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The difference between the regular trader and the _coureur des bois_, (as the French call the itinerant or peddling traders,) with respect to the sale of spirits, is here, as it always has been, fixed and permanent, and growing out of the nature of their trade.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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But the media has long since been corrupted by a far more sophisticated, legal system of payola and influence peddling.
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When the cyclist stops peddling, his watt average declines dramatically!
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They are the favorite targets of the boys who steal a few hours from shining shoes, peddling candy and gathering firewood.
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He is a right wing black man who voted for George W Bush in 1980 & 1984, supported the war in Iraq and makes a living peddling the kind of inanities about black people that white people like to hear.
Race
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Two men were arrested, suspected of peddling drugs.
The Sun
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Lenoir — rouleau to rouleau, bank-note to bank-note, war for war, controlment for controlment — all the minor punters and gamblers ceased their peddling play, and looked on in silence, round the verdant plain where the great combat was to be decided.
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
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He would be ostracized by the puritans on both the right and the left - by the feminists patrolling the sexual borders of contemporary life and by the politicos peddling decency.
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When she grew up, Linda Jones thought she could make a little money by peddling cels of animated characters her father had drawn; today the business grosses more than $4 million a year and employs 26 people.
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The fight business has a history of peddling much more objectionable travesties.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an arena where only powerful interests have a say and well paid lobbyists (aka influence-peddling "bagmen") "grease the wheels" of big government to make it work for big business in a "snatch and grab" all you can enterprise that leaves the public largely out in the cold.
Comments On David Sirota's New Book - Hostile Takeover
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Widespread graft and influence peddling among government officials are hampering economic development.
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The story about the aluminum tubes seems not to have been true, even though we're still peddling that.
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On its pre-season tour of America, the club seized 600 counterfeits, including t-shirts and caps, while issuing 35 banning orders to firms suspected of peddling fakes there.
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The drug dealer, identified simply as XXXX, is ready to retire with the fortune he made peddling cocaine.
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Nowadays, resemble peddling avowedly on Internet so the net shop of contraband is not little.
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But they shouldn't get too big for their britches just yet - they could find themselves peddling CDs on the streets of LA just like one of their predecessors.
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I am still facing totally vindictive charges relating to that little incident with that chap who invaded my doorstep peddling household goods.
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Lott wastes some good data and arguments by engaging in hackery and peddling falsehoods, distortions and lies.
Balkinization
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He's a trim 42-year-old who favors black shirts and a slightly Mephistophelian beard, and most Wikipedians revere him, but you wouldn't know that from the Jimmy Wales article in the encyclopedia, which rehearses some shady-sounding accusations: padding expenses, peddling pornography, editing his own Wikipedia page.
Wikipedians Leave Cyberspace,
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No one was in the streets that wee Shane could see, and yet the town was lifeful, some tropical city where the green jalousies were closed in the heat of the midday sun, and where no one was on the streets, barring some unseen old beggar or peddling woman drowsing in the shade.
The Wind Bloweth
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He said it was disappointing the government was peddling the populist yet contradictory "myths" that the parklands were little more than a barren wasteland and the exclusive playground of city "silver tails".
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The authorities argued that the black-shirt wearing, baseball-capped rockers were peddling satanism and debasing the morality of youth.
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Instead of peddling information, he had turned to peddling silence.
TIME TO MURDER AND CREATE
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Ahead of me, a moustachioed middle-aged man is peddling toward me.
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Extortion, drug peddling, protection rackets… you name it, these men have got their nasty, fat little digits well dug in - right up to the knuckles!
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The smell of strange and exotic spices led us to the huge indoor food market with rows and rows of locals peddling everything from fresh fruit and vegetables to nuts, spices and flowers.
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What is the difference between peddling a stock or a product as having value, when in reality, insiders know what is being sold is unreliable, unsound and unworthy?
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It seems a mortgage company that briefly held my loan two years ago is still peddling my personal financial information to every huckster with a LaserJet printer.
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‘Every producer,’ she writes, ‘is condemned by the absolutization of innovation to a lifetime of peddling the same old trick’; here, for ‘innovation,’ read ‘branding’ or ‘market niche.’
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Enter the guru, peddling ancient or radical solutions to today 's problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now a toughie: Why in its main business of peddling computers does this same company have so much trouble elevating its minuscule single-digit market share?
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He's peddling relief for legions of businesspeople who are caught in a web of portable work, always-on technology, and bad habits.
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In this country, we fear psychiatry and we fear that it is the peddling ground for pharmaceutical giants.
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We passed Cabul merchants peddling their dried fruit on shaggy-haired camels; to these succeeded, in more lonesome portions of the road, small groups of Korkas, wretched remnants of one of the autochthonal families of Central India -- even lower in the scale of civilization than the Gónds, among whom they are found; and to these the richly-caparisoned elephants of some wealthy
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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An appointed body, the theory went, would be insulated from influence peddling, and thus better equipped than politicians to safeguard the public.
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They were charged with such heavy-duty crimes as petty theft, peddling phony drivers licenses, and making unlicensed money transfers.
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In addition, the label hired a religious consultant to help target its marketing and "take the edges off" the notion of a big company peddling sacred music, says Mark Flaherty, senior vice president of marketing for RCA Music Group, which is releasing "The Priests" in the U.S.
Rock of Ages
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She was involved in peddling access to the Clintons to Johnny Chung, and also in the disappearance of some of Vincent Foster's papers (Foster was the guy who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances).
Obama on a roll
