ingratiating

How To Use ingratiating In A Sentence

• with open arms and an ingratiating smile
• The officials say the most effective interrogation method involves a mix of psychological disorientation, physical deprivation, and ingratiating acts, all of which can take weeks or months.
• At home his face is an opaque, expressionless void; at work his mouth is frozen into a terrible, ingratiating rictus of a smile.
• He needs to communicate authority and intimacy, to mix seriousness with an ingratiating humor; he wants to be respected and liked.
• By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release.
• The novelty and uneasiness soon wore off, though, as they usually did with all but the most ingratiating guests, and soon they were struck by the more bizarre presence here: a wainscoted, crown-molded parlor chockablock with equipment that a crime scene unit in a medium-sized town might envy. The Burning Wire
• The little man's voice was placative; his manner gravely ingratiating. Square Deal Sanderson
• He came in hunched low, about four feet behind an ingratiating smile. A DARKENING STAIN
• Whatever the different roles assigned, Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
• Mulhearn attempted an ingratiating smile, which sat oddly on his careworn face. STAGE FRIGHT