迎合

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 迎合 (げいごう) means currying favor by adapting to another's taste or power at the expense of one's principles. 迎合して is conduct; 迎合ではなく rejects it as a motive.
• Basic usage: One warning opposes changing policy to suit popularity; another says a proposal arose from sincerity rather than pandering.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Policy bent to popularity and motive tested against sincerity
  • The accommodated target appears as 人気に or 相手への. Unlike neutral cooperation, the word carries a negative implication of compromising principle.