PEDLARS Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

peddlers

noun

variants also pedlars

plural of peddler

as in vendors

one who sells things outdoors the peddler on the street corner selling baseball caps

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Recent Examples of peddlers But at each step, the NCAA fought reform through lobbying and influence peddlers focusing more on its finances than the well-being of athletes. — U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026 Find a souvenir in the high-end boutiques on Montana Avenue, the independent shops and vintage stores along Main Street or the brand-name peddlers at Santa Monica Place. — Carrie Bell, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 But as the January date approached, Atkin and Jammi’s research showed that intermediaries were still sending money to prominent peddlers of election conspiracies like Dan Bongino and Tucker Carlson. — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026 Connecticut gets a bad reputation This leads to the 1833 story of the unscrupulous Connecticut peddlers. — Ava Berger, NPR, 28 May 2026 Activists say the real death toll may never be known, with users and small-time peddlers gunned down almost daily in mysterious slumland killings blamed on vigilantes and turf wars. — Reuters, NBC news, 13 May 2026 Hanaway characterized the stores as deceptive drug peddlers. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026 The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread. — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026 The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026

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Noun

Other cybersecurity vendors have been tracking the threat, and cataloging the various malware strains, which include BeaverTail, capable of targeting both Windows and macOS.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
The city has extended the agreements many times since then, including with bus vendors who consistently provide poor service.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of vendors

Noun

British historian Dan Jones is the author of The New York Times nonfiction best sellers The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 15 Sep. 2026
On all of the aforementioned platforms, live selling happens 24/7 through a wide variety of third-party sellers who operate out of these marketplaces like vendors in a digital shopping mall.

— Larry Holder, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of sellers

Noun

In the retail markets, merchants said customers are disappearing as purchasing power deteriorates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
The city's tailors and textile artists have shaped global fashion, and its craft heritage has deep roots stretching back to the 12th century, when artisans and merchants founded guilds to protect their skills and commercial interests.

— Clare Coulson, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of merchants

Noun

The dog hawkers, however, don’t fit into any Peace Action report or lecture to visiting students.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026
The reason there were so many children there to begin with was because their mothers, who worked as hawkers, had nowhere else to leave them.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of hawkers

Noun

The fact that none of that advice could ever help someone find real intimacy or success isn’t a problem for the manosphere hucksters, because those achievements would be bad for the business model.

— Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Yet many mysteries remain, and plenty of myths and pseudoscientific claims surrounding the brain are still out there — many based on either misunderstandings of the empirical data or the misleading promises of hucksters.

— Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of hucksters

Noun

Based on a straw poll of curators, collectors, and rival dealers at a spree of events last week, this is the show everyone’s most excited to see in Chelsea this fall.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 18 Sep. 2026
The Justice Department concluded Friday that the federal government cannot criminally enforce a prohibition on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding adults ages 18-20 because the restriction violates the Second Amendment.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 18 Sep. 2026

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