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    ingratiate


    1. Thinking his sabotage would bring down his nemesis in the eyes of the management; his thought was that he would be able to step in, provide remedy, and thereby ingratiate himself into those same supervisors' good opinions who for reasons unknown to himself so depended upon that 'Mr


    2. You would best serve our cause if you could ingratiate yourself with your relatives in the palace and let us know if there is any indication that they suspect our activity


    3. He seemed to have an uncanny knack for estimating who would come out on top in the bloody fighting at the highest levels of Roman power; or failing that, to ingratiate himself to the ultimate victors


    4. It was not until ten years after the death of Stephen that the second martyrdom took place; for no sooner had Herod Agrippa been appointed governor of Judea than with a view to ingratiate himself with them he raised a sharp persecution against the Christians and determined to make an effectual blow by striking at their leaders


    5. June knew this was a perfect time to ingratiate herself; she needed Angela as much as Angela appeared to need her


    6. 'Aye, by Mitra!' The pirate, sensing the trend of feeling, was eager to ingratiate himself with the Cimmerian


    7. would always try to ingratiate himself to others it was sickening


    8. The narcissist seeks to be admired for his ability to integrate and ingratiate himself without investing the efforts commensurate with such an undertaking


    9. ‘But why at home?’ exclaimed Prasad as if to ingratiate himself with Roopa


    10. way he called his clients ‘gov’ on the ’phone as though trying to ingratiate himself by being

    11. “If that cousin of mine exemplified the falsity of perception, the one who used to ingratiate himself with her spouse was the personification of falsity itself,” he began the remarkable recap of his life


    12. in Pugilist tended to ingratiate themselves on others, to fawn or to follow a trend easily, who would care to separate the black from the white? Of course, they would all believe in the upright hero of that Gentleman Swordsman and who would


    13. one appeals to sages, and yet another who is eager to quickly ingratiate


    14. She saw the progressive manipulation Tracy used to ingratiate herself with Stephen


    15. I was to ingratiate myself with you and try to join any expedition that was mounted


    16. To try to ingratiate one's self with


    17. He determined to try to ingratiate himself with Hunter and appease his wrath by sacrificing someone else


    18. He had opened a small shop on Glasnevin Road where, he flattered himself, his manners would ingratiate him with the housewives of the district


    19. Unfortunately, Godwyn had not yet had a chance to ingratiate himself with Henri


    20. She could not understand, either, why Joe seemed to show so little anger about it all, why he continued to try to ingratiate himself with the two of them, as if none of it had ever happened

    21. He had hoped to ingratiate himself and make the bishop his ally against


    22. What was Philemon’s motive? He was always trying to ingratiate himself with someone – that was his modus operandi


    23. “It’s part of a campaign to ingratiate himself with senior clergy


    24. She was suppressing a smirk, and in that instant Lisbeth realized that Camilla was not only trying to ingratiate herself with her father


    25. Only after about a minute did he address him and then in fact he said something quite friendly, not to ingratiate himself or compensate for his nonchalance, but because he really meant it


    26. But to show he was not trying to ingratiate himself with Vronsky, he promptly added some slightly critical remarks


    27. It had occurred to her that, with my interest in architecture, my true métier was designing scenery for the films, and she had asked two Hollywood magnates to the party with whom she wished to ingratiate me


    28. phone—mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt— but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon


    29. “Verily the Winter Crossings upon the Atlantick are harsh indeed, and only the greediest of Captains—or the most desperate—venture across the Sea in those Months, so I trusted to my own Charm to ingratiate myself with the Captain in the Weeks to come and I doubted not but I should find a Way to escape when we came to the beauteous Shores of France


    30. The Petersburg Freemasons all came to see him, tried to ingratiate themselves with him, and it seemed to them all that he was preparing something for them and concealing it

    31. Boris, who had come to Moscow on leave a few days before, had been anxious to be presented to Prince Nicholas Bolkonski, and had contrived to ingratiate himself so well that the old prince in his case made an exception to the rule of not receiving bachelors in his house


    32. Chutani wasn’t playing a role to ingratiate himself with the Americans


    33. You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself in our good opinion


    34. Borís, who had come to Moscow on leave a few days before, had been anxious to be presented to Prince Nicholas Bolkónski, and had contrived to ingratiate himself so well that the old prince in his case made an exception to the rule of not receiving bachelors in his house


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    "ingratiate" definitions

    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts