ingratiating

How To Use ingratiating In A Sentence

• Darius is not shy of ingratiating himself to famous people.
• ‘Sorry to hurt your feelings,’ he shot back with an ingratiating smirk.
• 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
• Whatever the different roles assigned, Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
• 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