ingratiating
Example Sentences
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To investigators in the U.K., what’s glaring instead is that his ingratiating friends leaked privileged financial information to the former banker that he might have parlayed into insider-trading gains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
He made the most of this connection, flying the Welsh flag and ingratiating himself with locals, who fell for the charms of "this lovely man".
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
In person he’s ingratiating, charming, eager to please.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2024
His smile is both practiced and ingratiating; his eyes seem darker than this film’s eerily black ocean, like velvet curtains tightly drawn.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024
On the surface, he was one of those pale, ingratiating kind of men who tiptoed through life on small, quick feet.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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