pander

[pan-der] /ˈpæn dər/
noun, Also, panderer
1.
a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit sexual intercourse; procurer; pimp.
2.
a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
3.
a go-between in amorous intrigues.
verb (used without object)
4.
to act as a pander; cater basely:
to pander to the vile tastes of vulgar persons.
verb (used with object)
5.
to act as a pander for.
Origin
1325-75; earlier pandar(e), generalized use of Middle English name Pandare Pandarus
Related forms
panderage, noun
panderingly, adverb
panderism, noun
panderly, adjective
Can be confused
panda, pander.
Examples from the web for pander
  • We want people to actually do there freaking job instead of pander to the propaganda used to train the herd.
  • In other words, politicians pander because it works with dullard voters.
  • Greed and greed alone, as producers pander to their corporate backers' lust for a few more dollars.
  • Silly idea meant to pander to the worship of all things athletics.
  • They seem designed mainly to give politicians cover and pander to voters' desire to feel virtuous.
  • He plays music that rarely challenges his own historical achievements, and that in its simplicity seems to pander to his audience.
  • It is one thing to pander and obstruct when you are out of power.
  • He is also asking him to pander to a single group when the candidate should be running as president of all the people.
  • They reasoned that an informal, late-night atmosphere is exactly the setting to challenge audiences, not pander to them.
  • These are the group's dimmest songs, the ones on which they pander the most.
British Dictionary definitions for pander

pander

/ˈpændə/
verb
1.
(intransitive) foll by to. to give gratification (to weaknesses or desires)
2.
(archaic when transitive) to act as a go-between in a sexual intrigue (for)
noun
3.
a person who caters for vulgar desires, esp in order to make money
4.
a person who procures a sexual partner for another; pimp
Word Origin
C16 (n): from PandarePandarus
Word Origin and History for pander
n.

"arranger of sexual liaisons, one who supplies another with the means of gratifying lust," 1520s, "procurer, pimp," from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer ("Troylus and Cryseyde"), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in "Filostrato") as name of the prince (Greek Pandaros), who procured the love of Cressida (his niece in Chaucer, his cousin in Boccaccio) for Troilus. The story and the name are medieval inventions. Spelling influenced by agent suffix -er.

v.

"to indulge (another), to minister to base passions," c.1600, from pander (n.). Related: Pandered; pandering.

pander in Medicine

Pander Pan·der (pän'dər), Christian Heinrich. 1794-1865.

Russian-born German anatomist and pioneer embryologist. With Karl Ernst von Baer he discovered the distinct structural layers of the chick embryo.