pander
verb (used without object)
to cater to or profit from the weaknesses or vices of others.
are pandering
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present progressiveof pander.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Here, too, are pandering and cut corners; here is leaning on genre presets that render atrocity redundant.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2021
I switched to the Guardian from the Independent because of the latter's anti-technology attitudes, and yet here you are pandering to the same smug, outdated, insecure, luddite views!
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2010
The fact that they deal with subjects which are unpleasant in their nature is no ground for saying that they are pandering to the tastes of the more prurient-minded.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are pandering to the lowest instincts of the people, and enervating their manhood by every artifice in their power.
From The Malady of the Century by Max Simon Nordau
What does annoy me is that critics who know better are pandering to the national hypocrisy after his death.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett
