pander

Jon: Chinese consumers often call out foreign brands that they feel lazily pander to Chinese tastes—like adding a dragon design and calling it a “Year of the Dragon” shoe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

She enjoys recognition but doesn’t pander to the Hollywood gaze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

The man was just a singer, a pander with a lute and a false smile.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“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

But Ford is made of tougher stuff; except for a few aw-shucks grins, he never panders.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

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

From The Verge ● Nov. 19, 2021

I pick out two Americans because to-day our country supports more literary grocers and panders than the rest of the world put together.

From Through stained glass by George Agnew Chamberlain

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

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

The more time I spent with Roderick in that life-sucking catacomb as he obsequiously pandered to his Jackie, the more I began to see the cracks in her fading infatuation.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2022

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

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

It’s not just that the humor often feels too topical or reliant on pop culture, but that the culture it’s relying on is pandering to younger audiences.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 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

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