ingratiating

In person he’s ingratiating, charming, eager to please.

The apparent failure to tackle election misinformation comes as Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent company Meta, has been publicly ingratiating himself to Republicans who had previously criticized him for providing grants to county election offices in 2020, which they falsely claimed was a partisan endeavor.

Both show off Glaser’s gift for grabbing a subject, attacking it from every side, playing smart and dumb, ingratiating and insulting, going sweet or sour.

For more than two years, federal prosecutors allege, Mark Meng stole high-end violins across the country — ingratiating himself to vendors by posing as a collector who merely wanted to borrow and try them out, then ghosting those vendors and reselling them to an unknowing violin dealer in Los Angeles.

Gilbert is vaguely dopey but ingratiating.