What's the difference between padder and pander?

Padder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pads.
  • (n.) A highwayman; a footpad.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, paddles.

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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.