All 3 Uses of
pander
in
The Fountainhead
- It would mean doing for you what I did for Peter Keating: lie, flatter, evade, compromise, pander to every ineptitude—in order to beg of them a chance for you, beg them to let you live, to let you function, to beg them, Roark, not to laugh at them, but to tremble because they hold the power to hurt you.†
Chpt 2.14
- And then there's something dirtier still—the people who pander to that curiosity.†
Chpt 3.8 *
- Either pander to everybody's wishes and be called corrupt; or impose on everybody by force your own idea of everybody's good.†
Chpt 4.11
Definition:
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(pander) to pretend to agree with someone to make them happy
or:
to or help fulfill the wishes of another while thinking those wishes are not for the best