All 4 Uses of
ingratiate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Paul Larkin reached for the papers hesitantly; he looked ingratiatingly helpless, "It's only a legal technicality, Hank," he said.†
Chpt 1.8
- And he saw what Paul Larkin must have been at that time-a youth with an aged baby's face, smiling ingratiatingly, joylessly, begging to be spared, pleading with the universe to give him a chance.†
Chpt 1.8
- That's all there is to it," the fattish Dr. Blodgett announced through the microphone, in the ingratiating sales tone of a department-store floorwalker.†
Chpt 3.3
- The leader assumed an ingratiating smile.†
Chpt 3.8 *
Definition:
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(ingratiate) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts