Peddling
['pedlɪŋ] or ['pɛdlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peddle
(a.) Hawking; acting as a peddler.
(a.) Petty; insignificant.
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Examples
- Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What can you expect with these peddling Middlemarch papers? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Finally the Fourteenth Point arises again to the Great Charter level out of this peddling with special cases. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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