Kyle Hill

Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.

American Author

Jeffrey Kluger

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

American Writer

Vash Young

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

T. C. Boyle

Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.

American Novelist

Steve Kornacki

There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who are as enraged by their own party's establishment as they are the Obama White House.

Tony Shalhoub

My dad was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wis., and sold it to stores in the region. He was a terrific salesman. People loved and trusted him, and he never let anyone down.

American Actor

Ashton Kutcher

Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

Steven Rattner

Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

American Businessman

Frank Deford

Nowadays, of course, flesh peddlers and scouting services identify the best athletes when they are still in junior high. Prospects are not allowed to sneak up on us.

Peddlers often move from place to place, not having a fixed shop.

Traveling Sales

A peddler usually sells small, easy-to-carry items rather than large products.

Small Trade

Peddlers have been a part of history, important for rural trade.

Historical Presence

When referring to ideas, 'peddler' can imply spreading untrue or harmful views.

Negative Connotation

Use 'peddler' to discuss individuals who actively promote certain ideologies.

Ideological Context

The second meaning is more colloquial and used in informal discourse.

Colloquial Usage

 where one half of the people get the real treatment, and the other half get placebo. But that's not enough. What I've just shown you are examples of the very simple and straightforward ways that journalists and food supplement pill peddlers and naturopaths

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 beautiful day and admiring everything and seeing all the people go by from all over the world but I always have to do is stop at one of the corners and get a hot dog from the immigrant Pushcart peddlers gotta have a dirty water dog and no

Kids need structure -...

 mackay acts love to monkey around here in southern india when a peddler leaves our fruit cart unattended for just a single moment these bonnet macaques