pander
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The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
But the jury is out on whether Warsh will "pander to the president" if persistent inflation called for higher rates, he added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
They acted like owners, obsessed over cash flow and didn’t pander to Wall Street’s whims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
And is anyone calling for those to be shortened to pander to the attention span of younger audiences?
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
The man was just a singer, a pander with a lute and a false smile.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
But Ford is made of tougher stuff; except for a few aw-shucks grins, he never panders.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
The characters were developed in a way that honors audiences rather than panders to them.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021
Day, the Australian researcher, agrees that mummies deserve respect, but thinks removing them panders to a modern aversion to seeing the dead.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2021
Second, it panders to a kind of anti-intellectual attitude toward architecture, “Let’s make fun of anything we don’t understand or won’t take the time to understand.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2020
He never knowingly calls black white, or panders to an ungenerous sentiment.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
We don’t need to be pandered to with short-form content depicting people four times our age using our slang incorrectly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
She said she wasn't aware of media criticism of the show as "woke" and and thought a headline saying it "pandered to woke culture" was "cute".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
This is despite a lack of films featuring Latinos, which I think speaks to another overlooked fact: Latinos don’t need to be pandered to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
His outlets pandered to their audiences’ secret cruelties and validated their worst instincts.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2023
All the Jeffersonian chants about human equality were delusions that pandered to mankind’s urge to believe an impossible dream.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
After I made these adjustments, I got fewer pep talks, but I’m still wary of the pandering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
“The experience of being Arab and Muslim has been to be the object of hate by one party and the subject of pandering by another. Both of them are alienating,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
In turn, an expanding roster of immersive, cinematic TV made the medium’s cheesy jingles and pandering copy look and sound discordant.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
Ricky considered Luke for another second before glancing back to Doreen, a pandering smile on his face.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Vocabulary lists containing pander
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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