ingratiation
Example Sentences
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The real giveaway, though, is the compulsive ingratiation.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2023
And yet, the ingratiation, however distracting, is also strategic.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 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
What’s clear these days is that this edifice of ingratiation is shaky.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2022
It was not that of a man about to make an apology, neither had it any smile of attempted ingratiation.
From Wych Hazel by Warner, Susan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
