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Meanings of pander in English

Catalan
pandero
Spanish
pandero

Music instrument.

pandero
Portuguese
safado
Catalan
xulo

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

safado
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Spanish
complacer

Yield (to); give satisfaction to.

complacer

Arrange for sexual partners for others.

Usage of pander in English
1
These people were elected to lead, not to pander to the IRA.
The Irish Times
2
To keep silent was to co-operate in the evil-topander to it.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
3
Politicians tend to pander to the NRA, some more shamelessly than others.
Reuters
4
Nor is it unique in having unprincipled politicians pander to base prejudice.
The Irish Times
5
And you wrote, a very good piece, I don't mean to pander.
The new yorker
6
These men went to an opium shop where they found a pander.
Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
7
Science was an outcast, and philosophy, so-called, was the pander of superstition.
Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
8
Gone, perhaps, to attend the bagnio pander, grown rich by his extravagance.
The Vicar of Wakefield
9
You must find, then, what pleases it, and pander to its tastes.
Tomlinsoniana
10
They don't mean to pander to false masculine notions, but they do.
Gala-Days
11
It would require leadership, and it's easier to pander than lead.
Wired
12
To have inspiring candidates who don't just pander to the least common denominator.
The Guardian
13
That is exactly the sort of fan service that doesn't pander to me.
Wired
14
Both pander to different forms of the same diseased craving for the unnatural.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
15
The licentious Duc de Richelieu was the pander on this occasion.
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 3 / Being se...
16
The woman who will not pander to it is ungracious indeed.
The Spinster Book
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