"pandering" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe an action that is done to win favor with someone, especially in an insincere or manipulative way. For example, "The politician made empty promises in an attempt to pander to his constituents."
But the answer is a reform of retirement provision and long term care, not pandering to a minority who want to play with their pension pots, probably in the mistaken belief they know what they are doing.
"There is a serious risk of pandering to knee-jerk xenophobia," he said.
"Some of these pop stars are wearing wild outfits, pandering to a gay audience.
He certainly was enough of an inside player to have done it, with a past littered with incidents of Malay chauvinism, pandering to conservative Islam and political ambition that westerners who seek to make him a liberal saint conveniently forget.
Racism, albeit more subtly manifested than Powellism, is poisoning the sphere of public discourse, and politicians of all the main parties are shamefully pandering to it.
All it has achieved is the acceptance that prison is about pandering to public prejudice at the lowest possible short-term cost.
It is also up to us to fight the root causes of anti-immigration sentiment, like the housing crisis, rather than pandering to it.
He and his fellows are correctly grappling with Britain's immigration neurosis, but they will achieve nothing by pandering to irrational fears.
It doesn't lend itself to soundbites".If the special election does not seem very uplifting, with its wildly entitled voters and pandering candidates, contemplate this: by 2030, much of America will be as old as Florida is today.
He is probably just pandering to the Zionists, as they all do.
Pandering further to UKIP might well restore the Tories' old reputation for nastiness.
