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What is the adjective for ingratiating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb ingratiate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

ingratiating
  1. Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sycophantic, obsequious, fawning, unctuous, servile, smarmy, toadying, oily, bootlicking, slimy, flattering, sucky, slick, submissive, smooth, deferential, greasy, humble, crawling, saccharine, insincere, cajoling, creeping, cloying, nauseating, sickening, wheedling, slippery, charming, serving, silken, soft, creepy, insinuating, timeserving, winning, disarming, insinuative, brown-nosing, smooth-tongued, silver-tongued, smooth-talking, Uriah Heepish, honey-tongued, grovelling, groveling, subservient, slavish, cringing, abject … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Barney turned toward me with an ingratiating grin.”
ingratiatory
  1. ingratiating
  2. Synonyms:
      3. ingratiating, toadying, sycophantic, unctuous, smarmy, humble, obsequious, deferential, charming, crawling, flattering, saccharine, serving, silken, soft, sugary, disarming, fawning, servile, grovelling, cringing, bootlicking, abject, subservient, oily, slavish, oleaginous, slimy, submissive, soapy, toadyish, greasy, sucky, groveling, sycophantish, truckling, reverential, kowtowing, obeisant, subordinate, sniveling, brownnosing, parasitical, parasitic, spineless, compliant, compliable, respectful, brown-nosing, snivelling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Jones and Pittman argue that individuals usually engage in ingratiatory behaviors to be seen as helpful, kind, and considerate.”
      “In some respects, the desktop manager is a practical outgrowth of its cousins, the ingratiatory or impression manager and the charlatan.”
      “This article focuses on subordinate kissing up or ingratiatory behaviors.”
ingratiated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of ingratiate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. attracted, blandished, brownnosed, charmed, crawled, flattered, grovelled, groveled, kowtowed, toadied, truckled, endeared, cozied up, curried favour, curry favored, insinuated oneself, sought favor, sucked up, got in with, gotten in with, played up to, insinuated, bedeared, made appealing, ingratiated yourself, smarmed, fawned, wooed, cowered, brown-nosed, soft-soaped, sweet-talked, kept someone sweet, bowed and scraped, made up to, rubbed up the right way, got round, creeped, sucked up to, prostrated oneself, crept, ingratiated oneself with, danced attendance on, paid court to, curry favoured with, buttered up, curry favored with, fallen all over, fell all over, got in good with … more
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