ingratiation

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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