pander
Example Sentences
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They acted like owners, obsessed over cash flow and didn’t pander to Wall Street’s whims.
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.
When someone photographs a drink she made, it’s pride, not pandering.
From Salon
First, good on Mazzulla to straight-up treat the kid as the reporter he clearly is, and answer the question directly, without pandering or turning it into some sort of saccharine after-school special.
Left to her own devices by a pandering script, she alone draws the line where loneliness ends and freedom begins, keeping “Die My Love” from plunging completely into its self-made inferno.
From Salon
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