ingratiation
Example Sentences
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What’s clear these days is that this edifice of ingratiation is shaky.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Also part of her strategy is a total lack of ingratiation, not only to authorities, but also to her boyfriend and even to the audience.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2020
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
His stage show is leaner than that December set, more deliberate, with fewer attempts at ingratiation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2019
Her physicians held for centuries the exclusive practice of scientific medicine; while in music, singing, dancing, to say nothing of the lighter or less reputable arts of ingratiation, her professors had no rivals.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
