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

Some two-thirds of job applicants use deceptive ingratiation, and over half admit to slight image creation, according to research by Dr. Bourdage and Dr. Roulin.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 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

His stage show is leaner than that December set, more deliberate, with fewer attempts at ingratiation.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2019

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