ingratiation
Example Sentences
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His first song, usually in musicals a moment for ingratiation, is instead a bitter snit called “How Can I Call This Home?”
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023
What’s clear these days is that this edifice of ingratiation is shaky.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022
Also part of her strategy is a total lack of ingratiation, not only to authorities, but also to her boyfriend and even to the audience.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2020
Bob is a unique figure in Hardy’s CV: he is basically likable and relatable, and Hardy’s face and style have always resisted this kind of ingratiation.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2020
And it quickly became evident that the whole afternoon’s object was the adequate ingratiation and stimulation of these dregs of frontier life.
From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
