pander
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Wearing a headband, speaking in a strained attempt at hip lingo and calling himself Raww, the creature seems proudly to pander to the audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
How can you pander to a player so much?
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
But the jury is out on whether Warsh will "pander to the president" if persistent inflation called for higher rates, he added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
The man was just a singer, a pander with a lute and a false smile.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He never panders to them or patronizes the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Critics also say the shoey panders too much to stereotypes which don't reflect modern Australia.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023
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
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
We don’t need to be pandered to with short-form content depicting people four times our age using our slang incorrectly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
She said she wasn't aware of media criticism of the show as "woke" and and thought a headline saying it "pandered to woke culture" was "cute".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
This is despite a lack of films featuring Latinos, which I think speaks to another overlooked fact: Latinos don’t need to be pandered to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
His outlets pandered to their audiences’ secret cruelties and validated their worst instincts.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2023
Everywhere, school administrators pandered and panicked, rushing to show they were highly sensitive to parents’ fears, even if they were oblivious to the needs and problems of many of their students.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Lacy doesn’t come off as someone overly concerned with doing big numbers, or pandering to a newfound pop audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The experience of being Arab and Muslim has been to be the object of hate by one party and the subject of pandering by another. Both of them are alienating,” he said.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2026
She'd grown weary of pandering to pop tropes of the "strong, independent female"; and wanted to present a "more honest and vulnerable" version of herself.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
When someone photographs a drink she made, it’s pride, not pandering.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025
Ricky considered Luke for another second before glancing back to Doreen, a pandering smile on his face.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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