The Eggcorn Database - v. 0.5

Spotted in the wild:

• The Israelis are sort of soft-peddling it and saying that they’re very content with the way the United States is handling the Middle East and they’re not really happy that such a deal might have been offered. (Dept. of State Daily Press Briefing, Aug. 12, 1994)
• Apparently assured that he had won Yel’tsin’s endorsement, Rodionov launched attacks against the government for non-payment of funds, against ‘new Russians’ for ruining the Armed Forces, and against Baturin for soft-peddling the dire circumstances of the military. (NIS Observed, Mar. 5, 1997)
• At the start of the Third Reich, therefore, Hitler’s government soft-peddled its antisemitism, and Hitler carefully steered a course between what he would like to do and what was possible, given public opinion at home and abroad. (Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany, 2001)
• Hyejin Jae, a classmate also spurned by Berkeley and UCLA, worries that she hurt her chances by soft-peddling family hardships. (Wall St. Journal, July 12, 2002)
• Education that soft-peddles the flaws of the Democrats will hurt the left. (New Politics, Summer 2004)