ingratiation

Example Sentences

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There isn’t a drop of ingratiation in it.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

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

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2023

What begins as a backstage satire of white cluelessness and Black ingratiation gradually broadens and darkens into something far more mysterious: a peculiarly American tale of lost opportunity.

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

He had prepared himself to be ingratiating; but he realized that ingratiation was not a successful line to pursue with dragons.

From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)