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

Even with its reputation as a watering hole for Hollywood’s biggest names, Dan Tana refused to pander to celebrities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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

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

“Skilled comedians craft material that brings the audience to them, while AI panders to the masses,” said John Poveromo, host of the “Dystopia Tonight” podcast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

Critics also say the shoey panders too much to stereotypes which don't reflect modern Australia.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2023

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

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

Day, the Australian researcher, agrees that mummies deserve respect, but thinks removing them panders to a modern aversion to seeing the dead.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2021

There are numerous well organized matrimonial bureaus, with male and female panders of all degrees, out for prey, in search of the male and female candidates for the "holy bonds of matrimony."

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon

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

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

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

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

“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

When someone photographs a drink she made, it’s pride, not pandering.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

There’s another song called “Walk Away,” but we thought that might be pandering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 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