Sentence examples for pander from inspiring English sources

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pander

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A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer. (Later panderer.)

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She is the same person she was in 2008 (though seemingly even more desperate and eager to pander) and she is still actively trying to make the world worse.

3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.

Of course it isn't; it's a coalition, stupid!" Sometimes the saws and proverbs crashed into each other: "If we Tories navel-gaze and only pander to our comfort zone, we will never get elected".

Last week Erdoğan dismissed the HDP as a party of gay people and atheists, a description apparently designed to pander to the prejudices of the AKP's largely poor, devoutly Muslim working class base.

That said, underneath all the surface eccentricities, The King's Speech still manages to do the one thing necessary for any potential Oscar-winner to do, and that's pander to its audience.

Reporters conducting random interviews in cafes and malls from Birmingham, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi, found voters saying they had been offended by his attempts to pander to local opinion, the northerner treating them as country bumpkins.

On me: an investment in the futureIn the face of such voters, both candidates pander.

The crowd loved these attacks (though the night's biggest cheers went to Ron Paul's giant televised head), and there's nothing wrong with a little pre-primary pander.

So prices in Gaza are rising and building at some sites has ceased.Hopes among Gazans that Egypt's Islamist government was merely trying to convince Western ones that it would not pander to its friends in Hamas have begun to recede.

Obviously, this was completely true, not remotely an attempt to pander to voters and certainly not a joust at Rudy Giuliani, Mrs Clinton's likely rival for the Senate seat, whose most notably human characteristic is his devotion to the "Bronx Bombers".Alas, very few people (including, hurtfully, the Yankee players) seem to believe Mrs Clinton.

Quite a few figures on the Catholic right continue to pander to anti-Semitism.It is especially sad, thinks Stanislaw Krajewski, a leader of Poland's small remaining Jewish community, that Father Jankowski's latest attack comes at a time when reconciliation between Catholics and Jews is gathering pace.

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