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"ref": "1609, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 3",
"text": "[…] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders",
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"ref": "1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190",
"text": "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."
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"ref": "1944 May, Gilbert E. Fuller Jr, “Chanute and Points West”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "Two small Hindu boys were waiting for me outside—small for their years (about fourteen) but infinitely worldly-wise. Hindu boys are, first, panders, and second, remarkably skillful and pertinacious beggars.",
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"text": "His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.",
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"ref": "2020 July 29, Howard Johnston, “Reversing Beeching: just how serious is the DfT?”, in Rail, page 30",
"text": "[...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963.",
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"(intransitive) To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification."
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "incitar"
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "tegemoetkomen aan"
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"word": "toegeven aan"
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "naar de mond praten"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "vedota"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "nachgeben"
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"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "frönen"
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"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "zufriedenstellen"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "Befriedigung verschaffen"
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"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
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"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
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"word": "huldigen"
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"word": "andienen"
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "ammiccare"
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"_dis1": "62 32 5 1",
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "morimori"
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
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"ref": "1980 April 19, Mitzel, “Barbre Murder Grand Jury: Puccini Outtake”, in Gay Community News, page 1",
"text": "Who knows what Brill really thought? But he pandered the rumor linking Spear to a whole string of dastardly deeds.",
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"word": "拉皮條"
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"word": "拉皮条"
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"word": "koppelen"
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"_dis1": "1 12 86 1",
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"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
"word": "parittaa"
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"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
"word": "verkuppeln"
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"roman": "svódničatʹ",
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"To act as a pander for (somebody)."
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"(transitive, obsolete) To act as a pander for (somebody)."
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"ref": "1980 April 19, Mitzel, “Barbre Murder Grand Jury: Puccini Outtake”, in Gay Community News, page 1",
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"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
"word": "incitar"
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{
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"sense": "to appeal or cater to",
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"roman": "svodniča",
"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
"word": "своднича"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
"word": "拉皮條"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lāpítiáo",
"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
"word": "拉皮条"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to offer illicit sex with a third party",
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{
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{
"code": "de",
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},
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