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Not pandering to any particular style or commercial style.
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The morning babble Trump & Friends was back in full post-holiday boosterish mode, bashing the evil mainstream media for suggesting President Trump might be pandering in comments about a British child with the rare illness.
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The morning babble Trump & Friends was back in full post-holiday boosterish mode, bashing the evil mainstream media for suggesting President Trump might be pandering in comments about a British child with the rare illness.
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Instead, while the population’s views are becoming more and more progressive, our governments are pandering to a handful of bigots.
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Writing about writing can be a tough trick to pull off without descending into cliches about troubled geniuses or mystification of the creative process itself or even pandering about the nobility of books and the people who read them.
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There might be some natural ingredients, allowing a brand to pander to a more conscious consumer.
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Lawmakers approved the popular pay curbs during the state's ongoing financial crisis, though some have contended that doing so is a political stunt designed to pander to voters.
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The Dolchstoss pandered to the German military aristocracy.
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Distinctive Meanings of procure
Procure, like many other English words, has a split personality. On the one hand, it may carry a perfectly benign meaning, such as "to obtain" (“she procured supplies”) or "to bring about" (“the settlement was successfully procured”). On the other hand, it has long been used in the specific sense of obtaining someone for, or bringing about, sexually promiscuous purposes. In this regard it is similar to the word pander, which entered the English language with the innocent meaning “a go-between in love intrigues” (the word comes from the name Pandare, a character in Chaucer’s poem Troilus and Criseyde who facilitates the affair between the titular characters), and soon after took on the meaning “pimp.”
First Known Use of pander
1523
pander
Definition of pander
1a : a go-between in love intriguesb : pimp
2 : someone who caters to or exploits the weaknesses of others
Examples of pander in a Sentence
an arrest record that revealed that he had variously been a pander, a pickpocket, and a drug dealer
Recent Examples of pander from the Web
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Rather than being greeted as an honest attempt to reach out to a voting group that overwhelmingly dislikes him, the taco bowl post was widely mocked as an obvious, ham-fisted pander.
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Origin and Etymology of pander
Middle English Pandare Pandarus, from Latin Pandarus
PANDER Defined for English Language Learners
pander
playDefinition of pander for English Language Learners
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: to do or provide what someone wants or demands even though it is not proper, good, or reasonable
Law Dictionary
Legal Definition of pander
: to sell or distribute by pandering had no protected right to pander prurient materials — Dunigan Enterprises v. DA for the Northern District, 415 N.E.2d 251 (1981)
intransitive verb
Origin and Etymology of pander
Middle English Pandare, character who procured for Troilus the love of Cressida in Troilus and Creseyde, poem by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342–1400)
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