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
But Ford is made of tougher stuff; except for a few aw-shucks grins, he never panders.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
They, too, read to be distracted, choosing an emasculate literature which panders to their essential dilettantism.
From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
