ingratiation

There isn’t a drop of ingratiation in it.

And yet, the ingratiation, however distracting, is also strategic.

His first song, usually in musicals a moment for ingratiation, is instead a bitter snit called “How Can I Call This Home?”

He understood that one of the peculiar things about comedy is that the line between irritation and ingratiation could easily blur.

And so they escalate their efforts at ingratiation, plotting disastrous reunions first with Hilda’s estranged sister, and then with her former flame.