Sample sentences for INGRATIATE

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts

She tried to ingratiate herself with her superiors.

said Pug with an ingratiating smile.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

ingratiating = intended to gain favor with somebody

On the surface, he was one of those pale, ingratiating kind of men who tiptoed through life on small, quick feet.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War

ingratiating = gaining favor with others by deliberate efforts

Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these slights and with what unwearying politeness he kept on trying to ingratiate himself with all.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
The article was an ingratiating portrait of the magazine and its staff, including illustrations with a particularly favourable portrait of Berger.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
'I hope your mother feels better,' he said, in a tone that proved that even someone who looked like Mussolini could be ingratiating.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
ROS (hurt, desperately ingratiating) : I-I bet you all the money I've got the year of my birth doubled is an odd number.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The leader assumed an ingratiating smile.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
To promote this effort I decided to make an all-out effort to ingratiate myself with Mimi.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
"Unlike some people," she sniffed, "I don't ingratiate myself with every monarch I meet."
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
I narrowed my eyes at Total, who pulled his lips back over his teeth in an embarrassed, ingratiating grin.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
The encouragement of kitsch is merely another of the inexpensive ways in which totalitarian regimes seek to ingratiate themselves with their subjects.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
My best chance of living was to try and befriend Sarawa, try somehow to ingratiate myself with his friends.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
"John!" ventured a small ingratiating voice from the bathroom.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
"Very well," he said, letting all the ingratiating charm fall from his voice.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
Otherwise, he might be tempted to sacrifice his duty to ingratiate himself with people whose favor was necessary to stay in office.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
He had made no attempt to ingratiate himself; he was what he was and he had done what he had done for the good of Mother China.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
He had opened a small shop on Glasnevin Road where, he flattered himself, his manners would ingratiate him with the housewives of the district.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
This, despite her easily hurt look, her ingratiating ways.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
He walked with an upright carriage, both ingratiating and defiant—but one shoulder was higher than the other.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source

ingratiate