ingratiation

Example Sentences

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There isn’t a drop of ingratiation in it.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2023

In black leather pants, he dances across the stage, flirting with the crowd with as much ingratiation as the camera fawningly displays toward him.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

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

She had made an excursion into a new land where feeble compliments were dispensed with and where meek-eyed ingratiation seemed not to exist.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake