ingratiation
Example Sentences
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The real giveaway, though, is the compulsive ingratiation.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 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
What’s clear these days is that this edifice of ingratiation is shaky.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022
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 was very young, but he already had a wrinkle of permanent anxiety between his eyes and a smile of permanent ingratiation on his lips.
From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
