(1) He gave an ingratiating smile, hoping to catch Peter's fancy.(2) It is not surprising that such high-ranking courtiers ended up on the receiving end, rounding out their incomes with ingratiating tips and gifts.(3) Bribes become a feature of everyday life for ordinary people, a means of ingratiating as much as an exchange at the margin.(4) I was hopelessly early, the show was a benefit gig for the Teenage Cancer Trust and after a few minutes of conversation with an ingratiating steward it became painfully clear that she thought I was a patient.(5) He needs to communicate authority and intimacy, to mix seriousness with an ingratiating humor; he wants to be respected and liked.(6) North Carolina's John Edwards boasts the Southern pedigree and ingratiating charm to match the president in the likeability sweepstakes.(7) Nor did he have an ingratiating , slimy, or arrogant manner.(8) His own brief career as a sex offender followed the same quiet, obsequious, ingratiating style, and he inflicted no physical violence on the boys involved.(9) He is outgoing, with the ingratiating manner of one destined for politics.(10) u2018Sorry to hurt your feelings,u2019 he shot back with an ingratiating smirk.(11) So, you know, sometimes these men are very ingratiating and very charming and very lovable, and nobody is all bad or all good.(12) Nevertheless, the ingratiating neoclassical idiom to one side, all of the works on this CD have the characteristic busy-ness and polish of any of Carter's works, whatever the period.(13) And that's an enormously ingratiating quality in any leader.(14) He was pleasant enough, forty-ish, with a soft voice, slightly ingratiating smile, an expression that suggested he expected life to hurt him.(15) But they do: the man with the ingratiating smile and the fawning manner becomes an axe-wielding, torch-burning murderer.(16) 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.
