ingratiation

Example Sentences

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His first song, usually in musicals a moment for ingratiation, is instead a bitter snit called “How Can I Call This Home?”

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

He understood that one of the peculiar things about comedy is that the line between irritation and ingratiation could easily blur.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2023

Deceptive ingratiation can mean laughing at unfunny jokes, and honest ingratiation can be connecting with the interviewer over real shared interests, like hiking or watching the Knicks.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

What begins as a backstage satire of white cluelessness and Black ingratiation gradually broadens and darkens into something far more mysterious: a peculiarly American tale of lost opportunity.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

It is a curious assortment, but it may be observed that the materials, as well as the method of ingratiation, were very much the same with the earlier as with the later navigators.

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest