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
The real giveaway, though, is the compulsive ingratiation.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 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
Marie stood framed in her wild cucumber-vine, regarding the captain with her pretty ingratiation, but not another smile she got.
From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge
