(v. t.) To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
(v. t.) To requite; to recompense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high support for organizations like MAPW was gratifying.
(2) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(3) Anatomical results have been gratifying in that most patients are totally rehabilitated and may swim or shower without restrictions.
(4) A small number of patients with limited stage C carcinoma of the prostate have been treated with combined interstitial and external beam radiotherapy with gratifying results.
(5) This paper reviews the current trends in treatment and presents the authors' experience with an aggressive but simple surgical approach in highly competitive athletes that can yield gratifying results for both the athlete and physician.
(6) Despite these risk factors and a high postoperative complication rate, gratifying results may be achieved in these patients with a comprehensive understanding of regional surgical anatomy and a multidisciplinary approach to their care.
(7) While it is impossible to predict the outcome in many individual cases, it is also apparent that gratifying long-term results in addition to palliation can be achieved if one is perseverant and persistent in the application of sound principles in the management of this disorder.
(8) Both patients showed gratifying responses to therapy.
(9) In aortic stenosis it constitutes a gratifying palliative procedure in older patients at high surgical risk.
(10) The process is meticulous, but the results are gratifying when new data on nurse practitioners can be generated.
(11) It has been gratifying to observe a consensus emerge among experimental observations regarding the process of alcoholic fibrosis.
(12) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(13) The early results with the PCA total hip replacement have been most gratifying, especially the absence of complications related to the acetabular component.
(14) Where its implementation is vigorous and sustained, the results are extremely gratifying; but problems, both technical and operational, need to be constantly reviewed and solutions found.
(15) The results are very gratifying as far as tenosynovectomy in the carpal tunnel and the pain is concerned.
(16) Four behavioral dispositions indicated a state of high emotional involvement in the marriage: striving to gratify interpersonal needs primarily through the marital relationship; needing to receive affection and desiring to provide support; desiring to satisfy these needs in a mutually satisfying way; and becoming irritated and hostile when maritally dissatisfied.
(17) Correct selection of the metal implant, meticulous attention to the biomechanical considerations and restoration of bone continuity by means of methylmethacrylate are most important if a gratifying result is to be obtained.
(18) Uncomplicated panic disorder can be easily managed by the primary care physician and is very often a rewarding and gratifying experience.
(19) The inherent capacities of national health services to execute their smallpox eradication programmes was gratifying.
(20) I am gratified that the Critique of Pure Reason, which must be surely one of the most difficult works of philosophy ever written, should have been chosen as among the most influential of all academic books,” he said of the 18th-century text.
Pander
Definition:
(n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
(n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
(v. t.) To play the pander for.
(v. i.) To act the part of a pander.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(2) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(4) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
(5) But Baptiste never seems like he’s polemicising, still less that he’s pandering to the expectations of a mostly white audience.
(6) The film thus panders to the tendency of Germans to see themselves as victims of Nazism and war rather than perpetrators.
(7) It’s amazing to see a new generation of activists, who understand that we can no longer compartmentalise issues or pander to governments or industry to create the change we need.
(8) The Institute of Directors, meanwhile, said it was “astonished by the home secretary’s irresponsible rhetoric” and accused her of pandering to anti-immigration sentiment and putting internal party politics ahead of the interests of the country.
(9) Such pandering was a mistake because they would never be satisfied until Britain left the EU, McFadden argued.
(10) In Bristol he is expected to attack politicians who "pander to prejudice or xenophobia".
(11) As the neck of the latebra approaches the blastoderm, it flares out to become the nucleus of Pander.
(12) The Canadian government, which had lobbied hard for the project, said it was disappointed, and the oil industry accused Obama of pandering to his base.
(13) He had absolute control of a very rowdy crowd without pandering to them at all, and was so delightfully silly that it actually turned them into a pleasant bunch of people.
(14) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
(15) Instead, this is empty rhetoric from a weak prime minister who is pandering to the backbenchers that forced out Andrew Mitchell."
(16) Consequently, the candidates and their remarks are seen as pandering to black voters.
(17) So everyone – from Cochran to McDaniel to the "Democrat" Childers – panders to those voters.
(18) Keita has promised to continue along these lines, but his campaign hinged on national honour and dignity, pandering to public opinion in the south openly hostile to any understanding with the forces that plunged Mali into chaos.
(19) She will, for example, remind the others if they play fast and loose on the immigration debate, that conceding ground to half truths and lies ultimately panders to prejudice.
(20) Why media-bashing should be such a popular pastime among key Republicans is relatively easily explained by reference to opinion surveys which suggest that the politicians are merely pandering to the prejudices of rightwing voters.