pander
verb (used without object)
to cater to or profit from the weaknesses or vices of others.
panders
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present tense formof pander (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the real hero of the play is the playwright, who panders to no quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
The characters were developed in a way that honors audiences rather than panders to them.
From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021
Day, the Australian researcher, agrees that mummies deserve respect, but thinks removing them panders to a modern aversion to seeing the dead.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2021
In a season when pop culture panders with noisy space battles and singing cats, Mulaney offers counterprogramming, a quirky variety show with a modern Broadway sensibility.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2019
There are numerous well organized matrimonial bureaus, with male and female panders of all degrees, out for prey, in search of the male and female candidates for the "holy bonds of matrimony."
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
