ingratiation

Example Sentences

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In black leather pants, he dances across the stage, flirting with the crowd with as much ingratiation as the camera fawningly displays toward him.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

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

And so they escalate their efforts at ingratiation, plotting disastrous reunions first with Hilda’s estranged sister, and then with her former flame.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

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

Indeed, it is certain, although he vouchsafed none of it to me, that this cold and stolid politician possesses to a great degree the art of ingratiation, and can be all things to all men. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis