purvey
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If it’s egregious for politicians and celebrities to purvey misinformation, it’s far worse when the lie peddler is a physician.
From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022
But the question is in the execution of these new plots, and specifically how ardently this spinoff will purvey a skewed image of justice’s inner workings, as is the tendency of Wolf’s other work.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2018
Rather, I think that the very notion of the children’s movie is, too often, a coup of marketing that comes disguised in the very virtues that the movies purvey.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2017
Much of its appeal lies in the contrast between the ostensibly stodgy actors and the outlandish tales they purvey.
From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2015
I want to drive him out of the house without me, were it but to purvey for me news and scandal.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel
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