0 present participle of peddle
1 to sell things, especially by taking them to different places:
The organization has peddled the myth that they are supporting the local population.
When he did so, he was accused of peddling wild rumours from central office.
The other day, however, it was peddling a slimmer volume, with no full colour pictures, at £1·50.
All the more pity that he has decided to turn himself into a third rate political charlatan peddling his quack remedies.
It was not so long ago that he was peddling precisely the same canard.
We must also be careful to distinguish between commission-influenced peddling and bribes.
Drug peddling is an international crime and much of the ill-gotten gains are laundered internationally.
Only scaremongers who are seeking to make political capital out of the situation are peddling such malicious and unjustified rumours.
This is not a matter of a fundamentally unsound selling method or of peddling unattractive goods.
