pander

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

They acted like owners, obsessed over cash flow and didn’t pander to Wall Street’s whims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

Bard or pander, Abel’s voice was passable, his playing fair.

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

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

In a season when pop culture panders with noisy space battles and singing cats, Mulaney offers counterprogramming, a quirky variety show with a modern Broadway sensibility.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2019

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

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

If anything, our previous Eurovision entries played it too safe, pandering to a cliché of polished electro-pop.

From BBC ● May 17, 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

Despite the horror vacui and digital pandering, the objects brought together here by lead curator Rosina Buckland describe multiple facets of samurai culture with breadth and brilliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

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 ● Nov. 7, 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