How To Use Ingratiatory In A Sentence

Moreover, employees' ingratiatory motives had indirect effect on their OCBs toward other targets by increasing exchange relationships with their supervisors.
Cowperwood, disappointed by the outcome of his various ingratiatory efforts, decided to fall back on his old reliable method of bribery. The Titan
Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young. Strictly business: more stories of the four million
“Something new, I should think, to you, sir, in a sailing match on fresh water?” he said, in his most ingratiatory manner. Armadale
Lord Decimus, though one of the greatest of the earth, was not remarkable for ingratiatory manners, and Ferdinand had coached him up to the point of noticing all the fellows he might find there, and saying he was glad to see them. Little Dorrit

He spoke with a timid gentleness of tone, an ingratiatory smile, and an anxious courtesy of manner, all distressingly suggestive of his being accustomed to receive rough answers in exchange for his own politeness from the persons whom he habitually addressed. Armadale
Directors increased their chances of board appointments via provision of advice and information to CEOs and ingratiatory behavior toward peer directors.
her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable
Near to him, employing all the ingratiatory insinuating arts she knew, and so absorbed in Scraper that she forgot even to direct the procession, was Lil. Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray
If you think of it, you will find one of the robin's very chief ingratiatory faculties is his dainty and delicate movement, -- his footing it featly here and there. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
Something new, I should think, to you, sir, in a sailing match on fresh water?" he said, in his most ingratiatory manner. Armadale