MEANING
To satisfy another's wishes or prejudices for approval or advantage.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- pander to prejudice
- pander to an audience
On the page
The speech pandered to the audience's resentment.
Word forms
- Base
- pander
- Past tense
- pandered
- Past participle
- pandered
- Present participle
- pandering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- pander
- Present continuous
- am/is/are pandering
- Present perfect
- have/has pandered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been pandering
- Past
- pandered
- Past continuous
- was/were pandering
- Past perfect
- had pandered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been pandering
- Future
- will pander
- Future continuous
- will be pandering
- Future perfect
- will have pandered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been pandering
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: pander; panders; pandered; pandered; pandering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: panders.
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