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Pander vs Ingratiate - What's the difference?

pander | ingratiate |

As verbs the difference between pander and ingratiate

is that pander is to offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp while ingratiate is (reflexive) to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.

As a noun pander

is a person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male (later panderer).

pander

English

Alternative forms

* pandar

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer, especially when male. (Later panderer.)
  • * 1992 , Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way , Folio Society 2005, p. 190:
    • 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 .
  • An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
  • An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
  • (by extension) One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
  • * Burke
    • Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
  • To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations etc.); to assist in the gratification of.
    • His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate.

    Related terms

    * demagogism ----

    ingratiate

    English

    Verb

  • (reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 15:
    • [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
  • * 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh , ch. 58:
    • [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
  • * 2007 July 9, , " Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
    • He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
  • To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
  • * , "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition), p. 283 (Google preview):
    • What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?

    Related terms

    * ingratiating (adjective) * ingratiation (noun)