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peddler

/ped-ler/US // ˈpɛd lər //UK // (ˈpɛdlə) //

小贩,小商贩,商贩,贩子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who sells from door to door or in the street.
    • : a person who tries to promote some cause, candidate, viewpoint, etc.

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Examples

  • Online peddlers of misinformation often exploit a data void, telling people to search for specific terms that they know will lead to results that promote what they’re trying to say.

  • At the start of the game, we find him selling watches out of his coat pockets to various pedestrians on the street like a peddler of illicit goods.

  • This is also what disinformation peddlers seek to capture when they create salacious content to share on social media.

  • Legal rum from Cuba seems to be one possibility, though the idea of becoming a legitimate liquor peddler hardly brings any heat.

  • Mandelbaum began her climb to the top of the crime world as a peddler on the rough-and-tumble, bustling streets of New York City.

  • Supporters of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones are FURIOUS that I dared to note his dismissal of the Apollo 11 mission.

  • But still: the move from governor to green-peddler is significant.

  • According to tradition, the typical Yankee peddler was thought to be so shrewd that he could carve and sell counterfeit nutmegs.

  • Fifty pistols lighted the scene, and the bullets whistled in every direction around the head of the devoted peddler.

  • Katy, turning her face, saw the peddler himself standing within the door of the room.

  • Disregarding all but the fact that his father still lived, the peddler stole gently into the room of his dying parent.

  • A noise in the adjoining room interrupted the dying man, and the impatient peddler hastened to learn the cause.

  • The door was opened and the Skinners entered, dragging the peddler, bending beneath the load of his pack.