pander

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

She enjoys recognition but doesn’t pander to the Hollywood gaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

I've never known a manager to pander to a player as much as he does.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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

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

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

Thirteen years ago, I told myself that I would not live a life that panders to societal approval.

From BBC ● May 24, 2019

There was no province of fraud which they did not practise; they were scandalous as panders, and as quacks sold potions for the most unworthy purposes.

From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott

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

You’re not being pandered to, however; the payoff is a lovely echo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 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

His outlets pandered to their audiences’ secret cruelties and validated their worst instincts.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2023

All the Jeffersonian chants about human equality were delusions that pandered to mankind’s urge to believe an impossible dream.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

“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

In turn, an expanding roster of immersive, cinematic TV made the medium’s cheesy jingles and pandering copy look and sound discordant.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026

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

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