pander

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

panderspandar

1.
A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.
It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.
Đồng nghĩa: panderer, abbot, bludger, bully, cock-bawd, dalaal, fishmonger, flashman, fleshmonger, hoon, hustler, mackerel, mack, mack daddy, muttonmonger, nookie-bookie, pandar, pimp, pussymonger, ruffian, souteneur, sweetman, whoreman, whoremaster, whoremonger
2.
An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
3.
An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
4.
(broadly)(by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.

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verb

V_es/s

panders

V_ing/Gerund

pandering

V_ed/pp

panderedpandar

1.
(intransitive)To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.
Đồng nghĩa: pamper
2.
(transitive)To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations.
3.
(intransitive)To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To act as a pander for (somebody).

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Đồng nghĩa

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Cùng gốc / liên quan

panderism panderly panderouspandersomedemagogism

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος.