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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
- 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
- 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
ingratiating = intended to gain favor with somebody
ingratiating = gaining favor with others by deliberate efforts
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