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

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

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

Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Despite the strengths of Monk's character, the episode's ending feels tacked-on and panders to a non-disabled audience, where a disabled character is "fixed."

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2022

The characters were developed in a way that honors audiences rather than panders to them.

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

“Laetitia” takes the form of a police procedural, but it’s not a mystery that assumes a classic shape or panders to a desire for cliffhangers and shocking reveals.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

Second, it panders to a kind of anti-intellectual attitude toward architecture, “Let’s make fun of anything we don’t understand or won’t take the time to understand.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2020

But he has a large and very aristocratic connection: he panders to their whims.

From The Intriguers by William Le Queux

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

If the viewer doesn’t like it or feels like they’re being obnoxiously pandered to through repetition and over-explanation, the best choice is to watch something else.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 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

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

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

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