The Only Use
ingratiate
in
The Great Gatsby
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- For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone — mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt — but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.†
p. 101.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(ingratiate) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)