pander

Even with its reputation as a watering hole for Hollywood’s biggest names, Dan Tana refused to pander to celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

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

Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Perhaps the real hero of the play is the playwright, who panders to no quarter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

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

For he panders to her belief in his charlatanry, and flatters her vanity, until the money is nearly gone.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

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

If the viewer doesn’t like it or feels like they’re being obnoxiously pandered to through repetition and over-explanation, the best choice is to watch something else.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 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

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

Despite the horror vacui and digital pandering, the objects brought together here by lead curator Rosina Buckland describe multiple facets of samurai culture with breadth and brilliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

I’m not saying anyone should pity a woman who built her career pandering to sexism, even if she doesn’t like being on the receiving end.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025

Neither play is beyond pandering to its audience for an easy laugh.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025

We’d been taught that worrying about inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering, that it almost demeaned an officer.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover