Definition of Ingratiating

1. Adjective. Capable of winning favor. "With open arms and an ingratiating smile"

Similar to: Pleasing

2. Adjective. Calculated to please or gain favor. "A smooth ingratiating manner"
Exact synonyms: Ingratiatory, Insinuating
Similar to: Flattering
Derivative terms: Ingratiate

Definition of Ingratiating

1. Adjective. Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of ingratiate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingratiating

1. ingratiate [v] - See also: ingratiate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingratiating

ingrainedly
ingraining
ingrains
ingram
ingrapple
ingrappled
ingrapples
ingrappling
ingrate
ingrateful
ingrately
ingrates
ingratiate
ingratiated
ingratiates
ingratiating (current term)
ingratiatingly
ingratiation
ingratiations
ingratiatory
ingratitude
ingratitudes
ingrave
ingravescent
ingravidation
ingredient
ingredients
ingress
ingressed
ingresses

Literary usage of Ingratiating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Although latterly he had grown somewhat corpulent, his good looks had not deserted him, and his ingratiating manners contributed to render him highly ..."

2. Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"March of Sir John Cope into the Highlands — Difficulties of His Situation — The Pretender's March for the Lowlands—His ingratiating Manners — Their Effects ..."

3. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"It was eagerly learned by the Saxon clergy and nobility, from a principle of ingratiating ... ingratiating ..."

4. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"... acquaintance of a most elegant, very musical lady, who in a most ingratiating manner approached my mother and me, and asked to be allowed to visit us. ..."

5. The Family Expositor Abridged: According to Its Author, the Rev. P by Philip Doddridge, S. Palmer (1807)
"The liberty of the worthiest of mankind was sacrificed by both, to their political views of ingratiating themselves ..."

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