pander
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈpændər/
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proxeneta
- Fox News is absolute trash and panders to right-wing extremists.
That's and, and actually that grand jury didn't even indict him for molesting any girls, indicted him on one count of adult pandering.
- That's and, and actually that grand jury didn't even indict him for molesting any girls, indicted him on one count of adult pandering.
Examples
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When Romney says that this kind of rhetoric is routine, I suspect he means every politician panders to different audiences.
Blog text (30) -
The lead-in panders to readers' sense of atavism and exotica.
Academic text (2004) -
I have been trying to remember his name ever since that fat pander described him.
Fiction book (1990) -
I admit, I pander cos I'm a pander bear!
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This is arguably the most repetitive pander to the base.
Blog text (14) -
The electoral college, in conjunction with the convoluted primary process, ensures that candidates can forget the majority and pander to those in "swing" states.
Blog text (27) -
The rape/incest exception is a pander to people who (understandably) are weirded out by the issue and just want to change the subject.
Blog text (9) -
Pimps, Panders, Parasites, Devils.
Academic text (2010) -
Archaic: a person who assists the baser urges or evil designs of others; the lowest panders of a venal press.
Blog text (28) -
The police arrested a man believed to be a pander, exploiting vulnerable individuals for profit.
Synonyms
203
9.5
A person who controls prostitutes and takes some of their money
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9.9
A man who finds and controls people who sell sex and takes their money
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9.9
A woman who runs a place where people pay for sex
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9.9
A person who finds clients for people who sell sex
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9.8
A person who finds clients for prostitutes
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9.9
A man who finds customers for prostitutes and keeps their money
A man who controls people who sell sex and takes their money
A person who finds clients for prostitutes
A man who finds customers for prostitutes and takes their money
A woman who finds clients for prostitutes
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun pander comes from the same name Pandarus, who acted as a go-between for lovers, and later the word came to mean a 'pimp', someone who arranges clients for prostitutes.