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She tried to ingratiate herself with her superiors.
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On the surface, he was one of those pale, ingratiating kind of men who tiptoed through life on small, quick feet. (source)ingratiating = gaining favor with others by deliberate efforts
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said Pug with an ingratiating smile. (source)ingratiating = intended to gain favor with somebody
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Newton's smile was ingratiating.† (source)ingratiating = gaining favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
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Now Williams was apparently willing to do anything to ingratiate himself with the jury.† (source)
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I wish to ingratiate myself.† (source)
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'Yeah...well...sensitive skin,' said Hagrid, attempting an ingratiating smile.† (source)ingratiating = gaining favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
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He likes to ingratiate himself with them.† (source)
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He tried to smile at her ingratiatingly and felt that shame again, he felt grotesque to himself, a stranger.† (source)
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Cedric had his own bedroom, played in the complex's landscaped courtyard with other children, and attended a mostly white elementary school, where his studiousness and good manners quickly ingratiated him to his teachers.† (source)
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Eager for praise, for public esteem, and expert in ingratiation, this demon possessed him utterly at the most unexpected moments, in the most decorous surroundings, when he was himself doing all in his power to preserve the good opinion in which he was held.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Lord Decimus, though one of the greatest of the earth, was not remarkable for ingratiatory manners, and Ferdinand had coached him up to the point of noticing all the fellows he might find there, and saying he was glad to see them.† (source)
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"My brother is a man of great taciturnity and strong mind, and when he speaks, though he practices no graces and ingratiations, all men, especially those of the sober sort who have responsibility and power, weigh his words with respect† (source)
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Why did I get the needy, ingratiating charmers and oafs instead?† (source)
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Has cousin Cleos truly swallowed this kettle of dung, or is he striving to ingratiate himself?† (source)
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The colonel sat down and settled back, calm and cagey suddenly, and ingratiatingly polite.† (source)
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