Peddled. Peddling is selling, with connotations of small-scale, bargaining / dickering / haggling, and often ambulatory; latterly with additional abstract conn

Peddled. Peddling is selling, with connotations of small-scale, bargaining / dickering / haggling, and often ambulatory; latterly with additional abstract connotations of spreading (for free, so without the haggling) more or less suspicious theories and opinions. Pedalling is propelling a bicycle.