pander

First, good on Mazzulla to straight-up treat the kid as the reporter he clearly is, and answer the question directly, without pandering or turning it into some sort of saccharine after-school special.

Petro's policies were "pandering to the gringos, who are thirsty for the blood of Colombian children," Mordisco said, referring to Americans.

Some Labour lawmakers accused the government of pandering to right-wing voters.

Left to her own devices by a pandering script, she alone draws the line where loneliness ends and freedom begins, keeping “Die My Love” from plunging completely into its self-made inferno.

The opposition Conservative Party has accused the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer of pandering to the Chinese state by dropping the case to expand trade ties, an accusation the government denied.