| The man behind the desk smiled ingratiatingly and raised his eyebrows for my request. |
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| Seeing my annoyance, she smiled uneasily under her mask and wiggled her fingers ingratiatingly over at me. |
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| Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial. |
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| Jane, the heroine, devises a theory that is marketed to the viewer as revolutionary, when it is quite a stretch to describe it as more than ingratiatingly goofy. |
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| The TF1 presenter told us ingratiatingly that he came from the banana plantations in the Cameroon. |
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| The grey, shifty-eyed old man sidled ingratiatingly towards the thin-faced man sitting uncomfortably on the battered park bench. |
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| In some two dozen roles in four years, he was a passable imitation of Noël Coward or Jack Buchanan, though not as brittle as Coward or as ingratiatingly silly as Buchanan. |
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| This results in more jokiness, much of it emanating from the fierce style and comic invention of Charles Edwards as Nina's childhood sweetheart and Jason Watkins as the ingratiatingly pleasant bore she marries. |
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| He had large, light-blue eyes that sparkled ingratiatingly, and the fact that he wore austere rimless glasses with steel sidepieces for reading and writing provided another curious contrast. |
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| Moss comes off not so much as aggressive as ingratiatingly curious. |
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