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Pondered vs Pandered - What's the difference?

pondered | pandered |

As verbs the difference between pondered and pandered

is that pondered is (ponder) while pandered is (pander).

pondered

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ponder)

  • ponder

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wonder, to think of deeply.
  • To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
  • I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
  • * Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
  • Ponder the path of thy feet.
  • (obsolete) To weigh.
  • Synonyms

    * chew over * mull over * See also

    pandered

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pander)

  • 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.