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peddle

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To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Acting is a bit like cycling. Once you've got the hang of it, you just peddle on. Madhuri Dixit

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. Walter Benjamin

Belief in permanent religious war is the misguided refuge of extremists who cannot build or create anything, and therefore peddle only fanaticism and hate. Barack Obama

Faith or religion should not be respected to the extent that they peddle lies and deception, and fuel division, and hatred and intolerance. Leo Igwe

It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea. Peter Mullan

If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows. Japanese Proverb

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