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Ingratiating   /ɪŋgrˈeɪʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Ingratiating

adjective
1.
Capable of winning favor.
2.
Calculated to please or gain favor.  Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating.


Ingratiate

verb
(past & past part. ingratiated; pres. part. ingratiating)
1.
Gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts.





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"Ingratiating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the order with a grumble, looked from his unreliable horse to the frosty roadway, and was about to shake his head in definite negation when Max cajoled him with a more ingratiating voice. ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... was thin and pale, with light blue eyes and sleek fair hair; and as weak physically as he was strong mentally. In his neat clerical garb, with a slight stoop and meek smile, he looked a harmless, commonplace young curate of the tabby cat kind. No one could be more tactful and ingratiating than Mr Cargrim, and he was greatly admired by the old ladies and young girls of Beorminster; but the men, one and all—even his clerical brethren—disliked and distrusted him, although there was no apparent reason for their ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... and Algy bidding against each other like that," said Ada Pratt, archly, to Lord Newhaven, for though Ada was haughty in general society she could be sportive, and even friskily ingratiating, towards those of her fellow-creatures whom she termed "swells." "Why, half Middleshire will be saying that you have ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley
... looking at Melbourne for instruction when she had any doubt what to do, which hardly ever occurred, and with perfect coolness and self-possession, but at the same time with a graceful modesty and propriety particularly interesting and ingratiating. When the business was done she retired as she had entered, and I could see that nobody was in the ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler
... this addition, and when it was rejected four peers entered a formal protest. Bishop Burnet was a warm stickler for the exclusion of the laity; and, in all probability, manifested this warmth in hopes of ingratiating himself with his brethren, among whom his character was very far from being popular. But the merit of this sacrifice was destroyed by the arguments he had used for dispensing with the posture of kneeling at the sacrament; and by his proposing ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett


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