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How to use ingratiating in a sentence

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By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release.
Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin.
North Carolina's John Edwards boasts the Southern pedigree and ingratiating charm to match the president in the likeability sweepstakes.
There's nothing unusual about reporters ingratiating themselves to a source.
It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts.
Of course, Ballard has always disdained or been uninterested in ingratiating himself with any kind of literary social scene.
There can be few more humiliating sights than a British prime minister ingratiating himself with his French and German counterparts.
What the 131st lacks in intelligent dazzle, it makes up for in bulk and an ingratiating earnest of good will.
For their part, the boys, baby-faced and natty but incipiently loutish, are hardly ingratiating.
He was pleasant enough, forty-ish, with a soft voice, slightly ingratiating smile, an expression that suggested he expected life to hurt him.
Kailash soon appears, threatening Madhu while ingratiating himself with Dimanji and flirting with the family's mischievous maid.
So, you know, sometimes these men are very ingratiating and very charming and very lovable, and nobody is all bad or all good.
He spent much of that time ingratiating himself with the affluent.
In reality, we were an unknown band who had actually come to this studio at this awful hour in hopes of ingratiating ourselves to the program director.
Well, if the emphasis is on ingratiating themselves, I don't agree with that, because I think it's now seen very much in their interest to cooperate with us.
He is outgoing, with the ingratiating manner of one destined for politics.
And that's an enormously ingratiating quality in any leader.
He gave an ingratiating smile, hoping to catch Peter's fancy.
Instead, with an ingratiating directness, he allows the audience to share a hardworking, yet playful, day in the lives of a group of Cuban peasants.
His sanctimony, his false humility, his ingratiating smile, his longing to cut a dash on the international stage are all very hard to endure.
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The young man smiled and it was much too cold to be ingratiating if that was its intent.
Besides, he had nothing of the ingratiating ways of the other men about him.
Therefore he drew him aside in a manner as portentous and ingratiating as he could make it.
I was confronted with the vastitude of the universe at once, without the ingratiating introduction of the fairy tale.
I can arrive at the papers only by putting her off her guard, and I can put her off her guard only by ingratiating diplomatic practices.
Then he moved up to him with an ingratiating smile, but stopped short again.
Rospigliosi, quite set up with his new dignities, went with a good appetite and his most ingratiating manner.
He had a double chin and a smile which was apologetic but ingratiating.
The pedlar's smile grew more ingratiating, though he understood no word of what Cronshaw said, and like a conjurer he produced a sandalwood box.
The kitten appeared from under the vendor's seat with an ingratiating purr.
It wouldn't be biddy if she weren't ingratiating herself with some one!
I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them.
He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating.
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