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Synonyms for pandered

Grammar : Verb
Spell : pan-der
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæn dər

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Définition of pandered

Origin :
  • "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.
  • verb cater to, indulge
Example sentences :
  • Others had merely amused his leisure or pandered to his vices.
  • Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • Prejudices are pandered to in public, which in private are despised.
  • Extract from : « Character » by Samuel Smiles
  • Thus they first created a bad taste, and then pandered to it.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No.394, August, 1848 » by Various
  • And she pandered to his weakness, smiled upon it as if it were an epic strength.
  • Extract from : « The Guarded Heights » by Wadsworth Camp
  • Altogether, the instinct of sex is not pandered to in Oxford.
  • Extract from : « Zuleika Dobson » by Max Beerbohm
  • Because they had tampered with, and pandered to, the anti-slavery sentiment.
  • Extract from : « Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 » by John George Nicolay and John Hay
  • There was a silence on both sides after these words, during which I pandered them well in my mind.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • The series of designs illustrative of Goethe, which had an immense success, were melodramatic and pandered to popular taste.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 » by Various
  • You came to me, knowing well my evil life and that I pandered to the passions of the low and the debased.
  • Extract from : « The Angel » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • The theatres of the bad sort, which pandered to the lower instincts of those who patronized them, were almost empty.
  • Extract from : « The Angel » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

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