ingratiatory
Example Sentences
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"Graceful, sleek, purring, ingratiatory, but cat all the same."
From Concerning Belinda by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
Near to him, employing all the ingratiatory insinuating arts she knew, and so absorbed in Scraper that she forgot even to direct the procession, was Lil.
From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
His white teeth flashed in an ingratiatory smile.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Not,” touching his elbows again, with an ingratiatory smile, “that one would desire to get rid of you.”
From No Thoroughfare by Wilkie Collins
Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
