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    Use "ingratiating" in a sentence

    ingratiating example sentences

    ingratiating


    1. ’ She said with an ingratiating smile, her tone suggesting that this would be a sacrifice but one she would make willingly


    2. Adopting his most ingratiating smile, he turned towards the guard


    3. "Forgive me Preceptor," Cherva apologised in his most ingratiating tone, "but I was wondering why this badger is so important to you?"


    4. I can be ingratiating too


    5. When he liked he could be very ingratiating


    6. We could hear Christina’s pleasant voice and the ingratiating braying of her husband, but we couldn’t quite make out the words


    7. I hoped she’d appreciate my ingratiating behavior because I didn’t want her to bust my balls anymore


    8. "fake it" or behave in ingratiating ways in order ro please a man


    9. motives remain concealed by ingratiating ways and apparent


    10. Several passageways, a handful of staircases, and a dozen ingratiating smiles later, they stopped

    11. Hench gave them a wide, ingratiating grin


    12. For a moment, he thought that Alexander was going to rip his head off, ingratiating grin and all


    13. Ruma opened her heart and home to her people who had shunned her when she needed them the most and as they wormed their way into her affections, she lost her sense of proportion; given her snobbishness as my people paid no more than courtesy calls, I too developed a distorted vision of relationships in the ingratiating company of her relatives


    14. She could not if she had planned it out with all her care and wits have achieved anything more dramatically ingratiating


    15. “What’s this?” said an ingratiating voice


    16. "That would be delightful," Celia said with an ingratiating smile


    17. "That's why he's ingratiating himself with that stout woman," Erlandr said, mostly to himself


    18. “Detroit! Can I have a word with you?” Denver gave Detroit an ingratiating smile in apology at drawing him away from the important task he had ahead of him


    19. After that I left the ingratiating to Ivan the Beautiful, despite being inextricably linked, by then, to what it was we were conducting


    20. And the lock of hair--that too I had always carried about me in the same pocket-book, which was now searched by Madam with the most ingratiating virulence,--the dear lock--all, every memento was torn from me

    21. Rospigliosi, quite set up with his new dignities, went with a good appetite and his most ingratiating manner


    22. Procureur?" asked Benedetto, with his most ingratiating smile


    23. He had based his life on ingratiating himself with Godwyn


    24. I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them


    25. She watched his progress towards the pavilion, saw him now responding condescendingly to an ingratiating bow, now exchanging friendly, nonchalant greetings with his equals, now assiduously trying to catch the eye of some great one of this world, and taking off his big round hat that squeezed the tips of his ears


    26. He was equable and not cringing with his superiors, was free and ingratiating in his behavior with his equals, and was contemptuously indulgent with his inferiors


    27. Rex, in the comparative freedom of London, became abject to Julia; he planned his life about hers where he would meet her, ingratiating himself with those who could report well of him to her; he sat on a number of charitable committees in order to be near Lady Marchmain; he offered his services to Brideshead in getting him a seat in Parliament (but was there rebuffed); he expressed a keen interest in the Catholic Church until he found that this was no way to Julia's heart


    28. When I wrote those lyrics I was through the door to a different, less ingratiating way of speaking


    29. He was barely taller than Regan, but had the impressive white hair even then, in his thirties, and that ingratiating manner; the way he introduced her as “Bill’s daughter—exquisite, isn’t she?” would have made her blush, had it not been as if she weren’t there


    30. Krissi Cates had plopped herself in the middle of the floor and was playing dolls with a large, dark-haired young man who sat cross-legged in front of her, ingratiating himself

    31. The more emotional and ingratiating the expression of Natasha’s face became, the more serious and stern grew Sonya’s


    32. But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers- but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles


    33. lifted his eyes to him, handed him the report and began speaking in his smooth, ingratiating


    34. It gave him a gift for pontificating convincingly on any subject, ingratiating him with his constituents who tended to prefer simplicity and certainty to the more nuanced arguments of experts


    35. With an ingratiating little whine the door slit open again and Marvin stomped through


    36. And the lock of hair—that too I had always carried about me in the same pocket-book, which was now searched by Madam with the most ingratiating virulence,—the dear lock—all, every memento was torn from me


    37. Oh, may that teirible beauty (yes, terrible, there are such !), that daughter of that luxurious and aristocratic lady meeting me by chance on a steamer or somewhere, glance askance at me and turn up her nose, wondering contemptuously how that humble, unpresentable man with a book or paper in his hand could dare to be in a front seat beside her ! If only she knew who was sitting beside her ! And she will find out, she will, and will come to sit beside me of her own accord, humble, timid, ingratiating, seeking my glance, radiant at ray smile


    38. I think she was herself the cause of this neglect, for she had a special faculty for effacing herself and holding herself aloof from people in spite of her obsequiousness and her ingratiating smiles


    39. Then he moved up to him with an ingratiating smile, but stopped short again


    40. He was twisting and twirling about, ingratiating himself with the daughters of an ancient General

    41. The more emotional and ingratiating the expression of Natásha’s face became, the more serious and stern grew Sónya’s


    42. But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers—but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles


    43. He carefully and hastily felt himself all over, readjusted his hat, and pulling himself together drew himself up and, at the very moment when the Emperor, having alighted from the sleigh, lifted his eyes to him, handed him the report and began speaking in his smooth, ingratiating voice


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    Synonyms for "ingratiating"

    ingratiating ingratiatory insinuating obsequious sycophantic grovelling unctuous toadying fawning deferential pleasing interesting appealing attractive winning

    "ingratiating" definitions

    capable of winning favor


    calculated to please or gain favor