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词汇 ingratiating
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Definition of ingratiating in English:

ingratiating

adjectiveɪnˈɡreɪʃɪeɪtɪŋɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪdɪŋ
  • Intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic.

    讨好的,迎合的,奉承的

    an ingratiating manner

    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

Derivatives

  • ingratiatingly

  • adverb
    • 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:

ingratiating

adjectiveinˈɡrāSHēˌādiNGɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪdɪŋ
  • Intended to gain approval or favor; sycophantic.

    讨好的,迎合的,奉承的

    an ingratiating manner

    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
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