pandering
Example Sentences
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But it strikes a false and pandering note, since Tartuffe, as in Molière, has been plainly exposed as an opportunistic, lascivious fraud—and the only one in the play.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
When someone photographs a drink she made, it’s pride, not pandering.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2025
Yoon feared that pandering to the public might prevent him achieving his goals, and hoped people would eventually recognise he was doing a good job, Shin explained.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025
“It’s so self deprecating without being pandering, you know?”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2024
She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
