ingratiation

Example Sentences

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There isn’t a drop of ingratiation in it.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

Because Childress uses the play’s structure to express her theme, the ingratiation naturally comes first, and Charles Randolph-Wright’s lively staging leads with warmth and humor.

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

The production is left to distract by ingratiation, with its comedy rhythms and clarinetty music.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2020

The humiliation, the effort at ingratiation, the failure, the long, eating, gnawing, growing hatred.

From The Long Arm by Habl, Franz