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

Only the aptly gaudy costumes by Susan Hilferty suggest the Ziegfeldian overabundance that shows like “Funny Girl” were designed to purvey.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 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

The reading public has been gorged and surfeited with war literature, a fact which has been only too painfully realized by publishers and editors, who purvey for its appetite and have overstocked the larder.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)