ingratiation

Example Sentences

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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

What’s clear these days is that this edifice of ingratiation is shaky.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 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

Bob is a unique figure in Hardy’s CV: he is basically likable and relatable, and Hardy’s face and style have always resisted this kind of ingratiation.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2020

The woman shifted her position, and changed her tone to one of cunning ingratiation.

From Out of the Ashes by Mumford, Ethel Watts