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/ɪŋgrˈeɪʃiˌeɪtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Ingratiate v. t. (past & past part. ingratiated; pres. part. ingratiating)

To introduce or commend to the favor of another; to bring into favor; to insinuate; used reflexively, and followed by with before the person whose favor is sought. "Lysimachus... ingratiated himself both with Philip and his pupil."

To recommend; to render easy or agreeable; followed by to. (Obs.) "What difficulty would it (the love of Christ) not ingratiate to us?"

Ingratiate v. i. To gain favor. (R.)

adjective

ingratiating adj.

Capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.

Calculated to please or gain favor; as, an unctuous, ingratiating manner.

Synonyms: ingratiatory.

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Etymology of 'Ingratiating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ingratiating" Quotes from Famous Books

... Lady Lundie's turn to choose a second player on her side. Her brother-in-law was a person of some importance; and she had her own motives for ingratiating herself with the head of the family. She surprised the whole company by choosing ...

— Man and Wife • Wilkie Collins

... had passed the state line and would soon be coming to the last point of communication. After that it was the mountain highway straight to Pleasant View, nothing to hinder. It was not a time to waste in discussion. Pat dropped to an ingratiating whine. ...

— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill

... unhappily to the group of box-elders beside the workshop and stuck his finger-nails into the cobwebby crevices of the black bark. He made overtures for company on any terms to a hop-robin, a woolly worm, and a large blue fly, but they all scorned his advances, and when he yelled an ingratiating invitation to a passing dog it seemed to swallow its tail and ears as it galloped off. ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... substance the poetry of the period voiced the mood, not of carefree youth, nor yet of vehement early manhood, but of still vigorous middle age,—a phase of existence perhaps less ingratiating than others, but one which has its rightful hour in the life of the race as of the individual. The sincere and artistic expression of its feelings will be denied poetical validity only by those whose capacity for appreciating the varieties of poetry is limited by their ...

— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum

... ready to depart they were interrupted by the entrance of Bernardo del Nero, one of the chief citizens of Florence, Bardo's oldest friend, and Romola's godfather; and Bernardo felt an instant, instinctive distrust of the handsome, ingratiating stranger, and did not hesitate to say so after Tito ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IV. • Editors: Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

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