pander
verb (used without object)
to cater to or profit from the weaknesses or vices of others.
had pandered
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past perfectof pander.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Murray had led a quiet life, had pandered to his father, and fawned upon him, until, like most hypocrites, he at last got found out.
From The Old Man in the Corner by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
He had conjured evil, he had pandered to base forces.
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
In our last house we lost nearly all the money my wife and I saved in a long service; but if I had pandered to vice, we might have been there now.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
It was not the first time he had pandered to his taste for past things by comparing a man with his forefathers, but the result had never proved quite so profitable.
From The Gambler A Novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston
