ingratiationn.
/ɪnɡreɪʃɪˈeɪʃən/ The action or process of ingratiating oneself or getting into favour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun]
fawninga1350
adulationc1400
papelardya1425
papelardrya1500
captation1523
clawing1548
insinuation1553
curry-favour1581
man-pleasing1588
courting1607
men-pleasing1615
supparasitation1620
sycophantizing1640
assiduity1641
ingratiating1642
licking1648
man-pleasance1656
sycophancy1657
fawnery1661
sycophantrya1677
nutting1789
tuft-hunting1789
cultivation1793
huggery1804
ingratiation1815
sycophantism1821
lickspittling1839
toadyship1839
toadyism1840
bootlicking1849
toadying1863
arse-licking1912
lickspittle1914
apple-polishing1926
pot-licking1929
brown-nosing1934
ass-kissing1936
arse-kissing1937
ass-licking1946
sucking-up1946
bum-sucking1949
love bomb1975
love-bombing1976
1815 Zeluca I. 224 His desire of ingratiation was not so ardent as Zeluca's.
1822 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 54 493 He had..cultivated the arts of ingratiation with some sacrifice of the dignity of independence.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Memories & Portraits iv. 70 Daily ear-wigging influential men, for he was a master of ingratiation.
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n.1815- bordland
- bordlode
- bordman
- bordrie
- bordun
- bordure
- bordured
- bordures
- borduring
- bore
- bore a person blue
- bore a person rigid
- bore a person silly
- bore a person stupid
- bore a person to tears
- bore a person's nose
- bore any one's ears
- bore down
- bore ears
- bore etc stiff
- bore for coal, for water
- bore one's way
- bore out
- bore scare stiff
- bore stiff