Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ingratiating \ingratiating\ adj.
capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.
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calculated to please or gain favor; as, an unctuous, ingratiating manner.
Syn: ingratiatory.
Wiktionary
Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity. v
(present participle of ingratiate English)
WordNet
adj. capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner" [syn: ingratiatory]
Usage examples of "ingratiating".
Control said, giving each of the Imperials a smile that managed to be smug and ingratiating at the same time.
Baker exuded an ingratiating optimism that seemed to the Kentuckian to belong to a much younger man.
The obese Staffordshire bull terrier waddled in, closely followed by the Yorkie, who bared her teeth in an ingratiating smile at all present.
Rospigliosi, quite set up with his new dignities, went with a good appetite and his most ingratiating manner.
Jelly played the role of the ingratiating patch with enthusiasm and enormous skill, and Lisle Kelsko pretended to be nothing more than a hopelessly hard-nosed, hard-assed, narrowminded, amoral, authoritarian, coal-country cop.
Despite a concerted effort at florid respectability, there is a seediness about BAGBY that goes beyond his overtight clothes: shrewd, pompous, ingratiating by turns, he is constantly eyeing his man and the main chance without missing any of the minor ones by the way.
In this manner did the crafty Fathom turn to account those ingratiating qualifications he inherited from nature, and maintain, with incredible assiduity and circumspection, an amorous correspondence with two domestic rivals, who watched the conduct of each other with the most indefatigable virulence of envious suspicion, until an accident happened, which had well-nigh overturned the bark of his policy, and induced him to alter the course, that he might not be shipwrecked on the rocks that began to multiply in the prosecution of his present voyage.
Francesca, with Spartan stoicism, continued to wear an ingratiating smile, though the character of the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear and will not hearken, seemed to her at that moment a beautiful one.
Years ago, while the German critics were resenting the spoliation of the masterpiece of their greatest poet by the French librettists, they fell upon this so-called Jewel Song ("Air des bijoux," the French call it), and condemned its brilliant and ingratiating waltz measures as being out of keeping with the character of Gretchen.
I went the human route, through the front door, clickity click, startling Clem, throwing him an ingratiating smile, “Quinn’s friend, Lestat, yeah, gotcha, hey, and Clem, have that car ready, we’re going into New Orleans afterwards, okay, dude?
I went the human route, through the front door, clickity click, startling Clem, throwing him an ingratiating smile, "Quinn's friend, Lestat, yeah, gotcha, hey, and Clem, have that car ready, we're going into New Orleans afterwards, okay, dude?
An alert floor manager with boot-black hair and a matching dinner jacket swooped down, landing on Lara with an ingratiating smile.
Du Katt glared at them venomously, and then tried an ingratiating smile on Finn.
She summarized the issues of the campaign in a friendly, ingratiating manner and put the case for Masculinism before the electorate in her best homespun style.
Don Pablo's salt-and-pepper mustachios crinkled upward in an ingratiating smile.