ingratiate
verb (used with object)
to establish (oneself or another person) in the favor or good graces of someone, especially by deliberate effort (usually followed bywith ).
ingratiatory
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a word derived from
ingratiate.
Example Sentences
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If you think of it, you will find one of the robin's very chief ingratiatory faculties is his dainty and delicate movement,—his footing it featly here and there.
From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
Cowperwood, disappointed by the outcome of his various ingratiatory efforts, decided to fall back on his old reliable method of bribery.
From The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
Near to him, employing all the ingratiatory insinuating arts she knew, and so absorbed in Scraper that she forgot even to direct the procession, was Lil.
From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
"Graceful, sleek, purring, ingratiatory, but cat all the same."
From Concerning Belinda by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
