pander

I've never known a manager to pander to a player as much as he does.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

Conversely, “Forbidden Fruits” speaks intimately to the female experience and “doesn’t attempt to pander to any other demographic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 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

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

“The film panders to a very specific section of my dad’s fandom that still lives in the fantasy,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Critics also say the shoey panders too much to stereotypes which don't reflect modern Australia.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023

The characters were developed in a way that honors audiences rather than panders to them.

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

“Laetitia” takes the form of a police procedural, but it’s not a mystery that assumes a classic shape or panders to a desire for cliffhangers and shocking reveals.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

He panders to its divers follies, consults its varied wisdom.

From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes

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

You’re not being pandered to, however; the payoff is a lovely echo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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

The more time I spent with Roderick in that life-sucking catacomb as he obsequiously pandered to his Jackie, the more I began to see the cracks in her fading infatuation.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2022

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

“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

It’s not just that the humor often feels too topical or reliant on pop culture, but that the culture it’s relying on is pandering to younger audiences.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026

But it strikes a false and pandering note, since Tartuffe, as in Molière, has been plainly exposed as an opportunistic, lascivious fraud—and the only one in the play.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Yoon feared that pandering to the public might prevent him achieving his goals, and hoped people would eventually recognise he was doing a good job, Shin explained.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2025

She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss