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
To Didion, Kennedy represented something insidious in the American character: the desire for voters to admire politicians like movie stars, and the pandering of American politicians to provide heroes made of clay.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
"There is no truth in the allegations that the government is pandering to Islamists," Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to interim leader Muhammad Yunus, told the BBC.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2025
Our hosts found it to be pandering to the anxieties of the paper’s white, suburban readers.
From Slate • Nov. 2, 2024
We’d been taught that worrying about inmates’ concerns was tantamount to pandering, that it almost demeaned an officer.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
