pander

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1. pander - Noun

2. pander - Verb

Meaning

A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.

To play the pander for.

To act the part of a pander.

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. Evelyn Underhill

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. Swami Vivekananda

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. Peter Maxwell Davies

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. Aleister Crowley

I think the Democratic Party could stand a liberal George Wallace-someone who's not afraid to stand up and offend people, someone who wouldn't pander but would say what the American people know in their gut is right. Joe Biden

The reactionaries of our Movement are keen to prevent Socialists from coming into it. The last thing anyone should do is to pander to the reactionaries by staying out. James Maxton and Harry Pollitt should be the Leaders of the Labour Movement today. Stafford Cripps

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