pandering
Example Sentences
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“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
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
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
