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Definition of ingratiating in English: ingratiatingadjectiveɪnˈɡreɪʃɪeɪtɪŋɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪdɪŋ Intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic. 讨好的,迎合的,奉承的 讨好的态度。 Example sentencesExamples - He was pleasant enough, forty-ish, with a soft voice, slightly ingratiating smile, an expression that suggested he expected life to hurt him.
- I was hopelessly early, the show was a benefit gig for the Teenage Cancer Trust and after a few minutes of conversation with an ingratiating steward it became painfully clear that she thought I was a patient.
- He is outgoing, with the ingratiating manner of one destined for politics.
- So, you know, sometimes these men are very ingratiating and very charming and very lovable, and nobody is all bad or all good.
- His own brief career as a sex offender followed the same quiet, obsequious, ingratiating style, and he inflicted no physical violence on the boys involved.
- And that's an enormously ingratiating quality in any leader.
- The officials say the most effective interrogation method involves a mix of psychological disorientation, physical deprivation, and ingratiating acts, all of which can take weeks or months.
- But they do: the man with the ingratiating smile and the fawning manner becomes an axe-wielding, torch-burning murderer.
- Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin.
- North Carolina's John Edwards boasts the Southern pedigree and ingratiating charm to match the president in the likeability sweepstakes.
- He gave an ingratiating smile, hoping to catch Peter's fancy.
- Nevertheless, the ingratiating neoclassical idiom to one side, all of the works on this CD have the characteristic busy-ness and polish of any of Carter's works, whatever the period.
- It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts.
- Instead, with an ingratiating directness, he allows the audience to share a hardworking, yet playful, day in the lives of a group of Cuban peasants.
- ‘Don't struggle, my dear girl,’ came his ingratiating voice.
- Nor did he have an ingratiating, slimy, or arrogant manner.
- He needs to communicate authority and intimacy, to mix seriousness with an ingratiating humor; he wants to be respected and liked.
- I don't want to win the support of the Conservative group in the parliament in a wheedling, ingratiating or deal-making way, but because my colleagues acknowledge that I'm the best to lead that group.
- ‘Sorry to hurt your feelings,’ he shot back with an ingratiating smirk.
- Barney turned toward me with an ingratiating grin.
Synonyms sycophantic, toadying, fawning, crawling, creeping, unctuous, obsequious, servile, submissive, Uriah Heepish flattering, insincere smooth, smooth-talking, smooth-tongued, honey-tongued, silver-tongued, slick, slippery cloying, nauseating, sickening, greasy, oily, saccharine wheedling, cajoling informal smarmy, slimy, creepy, sucky, bootlicking North American informal brown-nosing
Derivativesadverb Seeing my annoyance, she smiled uneasily under her mask and wiggled her fingers ingratiatingly over at me. Example sentencesExamples - The man behind the desk smiled ingratiatingly and raised his eyebrows for my request.
- Jane, the heroine, devises a theory that is marketed to the viewer as revolutionary, when it is quite a stretch to describe it as more than ingratiatingly goofy.
- Hugh is always ingratiatingly Hugh, but I imagine that Daniel disappears into each role and doesn't give a damn whether you like him or not.
- Who would not prefer a youngster to an adult who smiles ingratiatingly at you and then promptly turns to another customer?
Definition of ingratiating in US English: ingratiatingadjectiveinˈɡrāSHēˌādiNGɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪdɪŋ Intended to gain approval or favor; sycophantic. 讨好的,迎合的,奉承的 讨好的态度。 Example sentencesExamples - I was hopelessly early, the show was a benefit gig for the Teenage Cancer Trust and after a few minutes of conversation with an ingratiating steward it became painfully clear that she thought I was a patient.
- The officials say the most effective interrogation method involves a mix of psychological disorientation, physical deprivation, and ingratiating acts, all of which can take weeks or months.
- He was pleasant enough, forty-ish, with a soft voice, slightly ingratiating smile, an expression that suggested he expected life to hurt him.
- Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin.
- ‘Sorry to hurt your feelings,’ he shot back with an ingratiating smirk.
- He is outgoing, with the ingratiating manner of one destined for politics.
- And that's an enormously ingratiating quality in any leader.
- Barney turned toward me with an ingratiating grin.
- But they do: the man with the ingratiating smile and the fawning manner becomes an axe-wielding, torch-burning murderer.
- He needs to communicate authority and intimacy, to mix seriousness with an ingratiating humor; he wants to be respected and liked.
- So, you know, sometimes these men are very ingratiating and very charming and very lovable, and nobody is all bad or all good.
- It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts.
- I don't want to win the support of the Conservative group in the parliament in a wheedling, ingratiating or deal-making way, but because my colleagues acknowledge that I'm the best to lead that group.
- North Carolina's John Edwards boasts the Southern pedigree and ingratiating charm to match the president in the likeability sweepstakes.
- His own brief career as a sex offender followed the same quiet, obsequious, ingratiating style, and he inflicted no physical violence on the boys involved.
- ‘Don't struggle, my dear girl,’ came his ingratiating voice.
- Instead, with an ingratiating directness, he allows the audience to share a hardworking, yet playful, day in the lives of a group of Cuban peasants.
- He gave an ingratiating smile, hoping to catch Peter's fancy.
- Nevertheless, the ingratiating neoclassical idiom to one side, all of the works on this CD have the characteristic busy-ness and polish of any of Carter's works, whatever the period.
- Nor did he have an ingratiating, slimy, or arrogant manner.
Synonyms sycophantic, toadying, fawning, crawling, creeping, unctuous, obsequious, servile, submissive, uriah heepish |