ingratiating in English
an ingratiating manner
a social climber who had tried to ingratiate herself with the city gentry
Use "ingratiating" in a sentence
1. He wasn't just helpful, he was positively ingratiating.
2. He was suave and ingratiating.
3. Mr Obama's body language was easy without being ingratiating.
4. He said this with an ingratiating smile.
5. Durning's character is both ingratiating and calculating.
6. His fellow students had found him too ingratiating.
7. Even worse, Hopkins started ingratiating himself with President.
8. What does Blandishment mean? A flattering or ingratiating act or remark, etc
9. Blandness - the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
10. Cleverly, he found ways of ingratiating himself with all the important guests
11. He contrived an eager, ingratiating smile, which he bestowed on Mr. Squires.
12. Even well - disposed people back away from Jack when they see that ingratiating smile.
13. Polchenko is civil , almost ingratiating , as he argues with the leader.
14. He's very good at reading people and ingratiating himself with his superiors.
15. Clever talk and ingratiating manner are seldom found in a virtuous man.
16. He wrote an ingratiating letter to his victim offering empathy, rather than just apologies.
17. Whatever the different roles assigned, Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
18. Mollenhauer cast him an ingratiating smile, and as he stepped out Senator Simpson Walked in.
19. Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier; the security man's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile.
20. The quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner Familiarity information: Blandness used as a noun is uncommon.
21. England has its Roald Dahls, the United States its Dr. Seusses – authors whose alluring characters and otherworldly environments manage to be both ingratiating and mischievous all at once.
22. While we were waiting for the coffee, the head waiter, with an ingratiating smile on his false face, came up to us bearing a large basket full of peaches.
23. While we were waiting for the coffee, the head waiter, with an ingratiating smile on his false face, came up to us bearing a large basket full of huge apples.
24. The Blandness of his confession enraged the judge 1; the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner 1; lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property 1
25. Synonyms for Cozying up include curry favouring with, curry favoring with, ingratiating yourself, insinuating, making overtures, pandering, worming your way in, getting in with, curry favoring and currying favour
26. Blandnesses noun - the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern; "the blandness of his confession enraged the judge" the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
27. While we were waiting for the coffee, the head waiter , with an ingratiating smile on his false face, came up to us bearing a large basket full of huge peaches.
28. Confiding quotes from YourDictionary: We do not like the Confiding, the intimate, the ingratiating, the hail-fellow-well-met, but prefer the unapproachable, the hard-bitten, the recalcitrant, the sinister, the malignant, the saturnine, the cross-
29. Blandness: 1 n lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property Synonyms: insipidity , insipidness Type of: unappetisingness , unappetizingness the property of spoiling the appetite n the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner Synonyms: smoothness , suaveness , suavity Type of: graciousness excellence of manners or
30. Late 14c., "craving, yearning, overambitious," from Latin Ambitiosus "eager for public office, eager to win favor, ingratiating," from ambitio "a going around (to solicit votes)," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go").
31. Ambitious (adj.) late 14c., "craving, yearning, overAmbitious," from Latin Ambitiosus "eager for public office, eager to win favor, ingratiating," from Ambitio "a going around (to solicit votes)," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb-"around" (from PIE root *ambhi-"around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei-"to go").