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Definition of ingratiate in English: ingratiateverb ɪnˈɡreɪʃɪeɪtɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪt ingratiate oneselfBring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. 讨好，巴结，迎合 a sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy 她谄媚讨好地方权贵的企图。 Example sentencesExamples - Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery.
- He spent much of that time ingratiating himself with the affluent.
- Make contacts, ingratiate yourself to people, impress them, charm them.
- Counsel will do anything to ingratiate themselves with the Court, Mr Jackson.
- There's nothing unusual about reporters ingratiating themselves to a source.
- Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid.
- By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release.
- In reality, we were an unknown band who had actually come to this studio at this awful hour in hopes of ingratiating ourselves to the program director.
- Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene.
- We used to spend entire ‘layout weekends’ to get the school paper ready for press, oftentimes spending the entire weekend ingratiating ourselves on the hospitality of Phil and his family.
- You could even be advised by the presiding judge to try and sell your efforts to barristers-at-law in any future court appearances and ingratiate yourself with the judiciary.
- But the carefully staged set-piece interview in the Times in which he came out had the feel of an ageing crooner desperate to ingratiate himself with the younger generation by bringing out a rap record.
- Darius is not shy of ingratiating himself to famous people.
- There can be few more humiliating sights than a British prime minister ingratiating himself with his French and German counterparts.
- He portrays him as a slightly nerdish character who cleverly ingratiates himself with his fellow journalists with a supportive word here and considerate action there.
- A devious and impoverished loser smoothly ingratiates himself into the closed and sophisticated world of a family whose lifestyle he passionately covets.
- He says, ‘You don't know whether she was trying to ingratiate herself to other kids by doing favours.
- She ingratiates herself into his life, about which she knows more than she should, or even could.
- Well, if the emphasis is on ingratiating themselves, I don't agree with that, because I think it's now seen very much in their interest to cooperate with us.
- Bradshaw wanted to work for the firm and his presence at the scene of the fire, which left two vehicles badly damaged, was a way of ingratiating himself by raising the alarm and acting like a hero.
Synonyms curry favour with, find the favour of, cultivate, win over, get on the good side of, get in someone's good books toady to, crawl to, grovel to, fawn over, be obsequious towards, kowtow to, bow and scrape to, play up to, truckle to, pander to, be a yes man/woman to, be a sycophant to, flatter, court, dance attendance on informal keep someone sweet, suck up to, rub up the right way, lick someone's boots
Derivativesnoun ɪnɡreɪʃɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n Exclamation marks suggest a certain unflattering ingratiation, especially in letters written to strangers. Example sentencesExamples - It was the pursuit of total ingratiation with the media and it sort of bothered me a bit.
- Recycling is useful both as incantation and as ingratiation.
- Nor did she apologise for the desire to be admired: it didn't appear to be an act of approval-seeking ingratiation but rather one of aggressive confidence.
- You will be fêted and your ego stroked; ingratiation will be the first approach.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin in gratiam 'into favour', on the pattern of obsolete Italian ingratiare, earlier form of ingraziare. Definition of ingratiate in US English: ingratiateverbinˈɡrāSHēˌātɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪt ingratiate oneselfBring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them. 讨好，巴结，迎合 a social climber who had tried to ingratiate herself with the city gentry Example sentencesExamples - Well, if the emphasis is on ingratiating themselves, I don't agree with that, because I think it's now seen very much in their interest to cooperate with us.
- But the carefully staged set-piece interview in the Times in which he came out had the feel of an ageing crooner desperate to ingratiate himself with the younger generation by bringing out a rap record.
- Counsel will do anything to ingratiate themselves with the Court, Mr Jackson.
- By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release.
- A devious and impoverished loser smoothly ingratiates himself into the closed and sophisticated world of a family whose lifestyle he passionately covets.
- There can be few more humiliating sights than a British prime minister ingratiating himself with his French and German counterparts.
- She ingratiates herself into his life, about which she knows more than she should, or even could.
- Bradshaw wanted to work for the firm and his presence at the scene of the fire, which left two vehicles badly damaged, was a way of ingratiating himself by raising the alarm and acting like a hero.
- He says, ‘You don't know whether she was trying to ingratiate herself to other kids by doing favours.
- Darius is not shy of ingratiating himself to famous people.
- Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid.
- Make contacts, ingratiate yourself to people, impress them, charm them.
- We used to spend entire ‘layout weekends’ to get the school paper ready for press, oftentimes spending the entire weekend ingratiating ourselves on the hospitality of Phil and his family.
- You could even be advised by the presiding judge to try and sell your efforts to barristers-at-law in any future court appearances and ingratiate yourself with the judiciary.
- He spent much of that time ingratiating himself with the affluent.
- There's nothing unusual about reporters ingratiating themselves to a source.
- In reality, we were an unknown band who had actually come to this studio at this awful hour in hopes of ingratiating ourselves to the program director.
- Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene.
- He portrays him as a slightly nerdish character who cleverly ingratiates himself with his fellow journalists with a supportive word here and considerate action there.
- Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery.
Synonyms curry favour with, find the favour of, cultivate, win over, get on the good side of, get in someone's good books
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin in gratiam ‘into favor’, on the pattern of obsolete Italian ingratiare, earlier form of ingraziare. |