noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snake oil salesman/peddler
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For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
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Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Smithson had been a rose peddler in Portland.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
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I am Omar Duvall, this morning a peddler through these emerald mountains.
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Neither are there any ghetto blasters or peddlers or time-share pests.
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Or is he a smut peddler who is using it to enhance the sale of his magazines?
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Save him for the Old Bailey and whichever penal dustbin they locked dope peddlers in.
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The peddler in disguise showed Snow White her beautiful, colorful laces.
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The shrewdest of the shrewd race of Connecticut Yankee peddlers, he understood the people in their multiple desires.
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Their list peddlers are hawking the names of 21,000 attendees, the lists with exhibitors excluded.