ingratiation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

There isn’t a drop of ingratiation in it.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

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

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Because Childress uses the play’s structure to express her theme, the ingratiation naturally comes first, and Charles Randolph-Wright’s lively staging leads with warmth and humor.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

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

She had made an excursion into a new land where feeble compliments were dispensed with and where meek-eyed ingratiation seemed not to exist.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake