NOUN
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the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments
she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor
How To Use ingratiation In A Sentence
- His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips.
- It was the pursuit of total ingratiation with the media and it sort of bothered me a bit.
- Exclamation marks suggest a certain unflattering ingratiation, especially in letters written to strangers.
- The Ingratiation Impression Management would be influenced by high extraversion, low neuroticism and high self-esteem.
- Recycling is useful both as incantation and as ingratiation.
- And Boswell, for his part, abandons ingratiation to protest at being insulted in front of common enemies. A Dish of Tea With Dr Johnson – review
- This kind of honor, also known as ingratiation, is gained by improving America's poll numbers in global opinion surveys. American Honor
- You will be fêted and your ego stroked; ingratiation will be the first approach.
- Saskia Wickham conveys the strain of preserving the marital facade and there is a peach of a performance from Graham Seed as a sly blackmailer who veers between ingratiation and menace. Accolade | Finborough, London | Theatre review
- A narcissist can appear quite innocent because she has so mastered the technique of ingratiation, so much so that she can make you feel that you have somehow committed a terrible injustice by denying her X or Y or Z as she positions herself as the victim. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
