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Ingratiating meaning
Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity; smarmy; unctuous; oily.
Synonyms of Ingratiating
Example sentences (5)
He is self-effacing and ingratiating, and not ashamed to acknowledge if he had given a bad performance.
And when the guns went out early in the morning, Diana was always there to wave them off with an ingratiating remark about how “wonderful” Sandringham was.
The phrase is on the one hand a politically-correct and ingratiating semaphore of social virtue claimed by the moral pariahs of the day, those who shamelessly flatter and cajole to maintain their status and pursue their advantage.
As Makhle, the household’s ingratiating maidservant, Sue Jin Song is charged with the comic relief.
Striking is the apology-statement’s tone: self-flagellating and ingratiating, with a heady patriotic flair.