ingratiating

How To Use ingratiating In A Sentence

• ‘Sorry to hurt your feelings,’ he shot back with an ingratiating smirk.
• Darius is not shy of ingratiating himself to famous people.
• My fellow citizens is an apostrophe, a formal address to an audience, whose distance has been shortened by the insertion of the ad hominem term fellow—that is, an ingratiating suggestion to his audience that they start out on his side. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
• Well, if the emphasis is on ingratiating themselves, I don't agree with that, because I think it's now seen very much in their interest to cooperate with us.
• ‘Don't struggle, my dear girl,’ came his ingratiating voice.
• Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction. Traffics and Discoveries
• I don't want to win the support of the Conservative group in the parliament in a wheedling, ingratiating or deal-making way, but because my colleagues acknowledge that I'm the best to lead that group.
• `I don't know, but I hope so,' I replied with my most ingratiating smile. DEAD BEAT
• Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin.
• He wasn't just helpful, he was positively ingratiating.