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pander to

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pander to someone or something
to cater toward undesirable tastes or people with undesirable tastes. All your writing seems to pander to persons with poor taste. You are pandering to the moral dregs of society.

pander to somebody
to give someone what they want, although it may not be good or right for them TV stations pander to viewers who don't seem to get enough of sex and violence.

pander to something

to accept or support something bad in order to get an advantage He is the worst sort of politician, who panders to fear to win votes.


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But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters.
I cannot forgive myself, and shall never pander to the Man of Wrath's wishes again.
As for the artists, they merely pander to the little less than ignoble tastes of the Plutocracy.
 
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