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/pˈændər/ Listen

verb

Pander v. t. (past & past part. pandered; pres. part. pandering) To play the pander for.

to pander to v. t. To appeal to (base emotions or less noble desires), so as to achieve one's purpose; to exploit (base emotions, such as lust, prejudice, or hate).

Pander v. i. To act the part of a pander.

noun

Pander n.

A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. "Thou art the pander to her dishonor."

Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. "Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition."

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Etymology of 'Pander'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pander" Quotes from Famous Books

... "And pander to one's love of playing at being a little king in a limited way. . . . All right! I won't say anything more. I promise that I won't disgrace you, and that I'll put on a grand manner that will fill those worthy ...

— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

... 'new journalism' and the Sermon on the Mount—the ridiculous and sublime in tasteless combination. You missionaries, I say, sap the primitive strength of Art; you demoralize her. To dare to make Art pander to a passing creed is vile—worse than the spectacle of the Salvation Army trying to convert Buddhists. That I saw in India, and laughed. But we won't quarrel. You paint Faith's jewelry; I'll amuse myself with Truth's drabs and duns. The point of view is all. I depict pretty ...

— Lying Prophets • Eden Phillpotts

... party or to any cause when another approaches him with a bribe; when no one shall expect what he says to be printed without additions, perversions, and misrepresentations; when public misfortunes shall be turned to private profit, the press pander to licentiousness, the pulpit ring with political harangues, long prayers to God, eloquently delivered to admiring auditors, be written out for publication, like poems and political speeches; when the uprightness of judges shall be doubted, and the honesty of legislators ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

... of Osteolepis. Pander. Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian. a. One of the fringed pectoral fins. b. One of the ventral fins. c. Anal fin. d, ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... so thoroughly, was due partly, I think, to his peculiar financial position. As secretary of de Vere, and later as Vice-master of St Paul's School, he was independent of the actual necessity of bread-winning, which forced even Shakespeare to pander to the garlic-eating multitude he loathed, and wrung from ...

— John Lyly • John Dover Wilson

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