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View usage for: (ɪngreɪʃieɪtɪŋ) adjectiveIf you describe someone or their behaviour as ingratiating, you mean that they try to make people like them. [disapproval] He said this with an ingratiating smile. His fellow students had found him too ingratiating. Synonyms: sycophantic, servile, obsequious, crawling More Synonyms of ingratiating Examples of 'ingratiating' in a sentenceingratiating `I don't know, but I hope so,' I replied with my most ingratiating smile.He came in hunched low, about four feet behind an ingratiating smile.Mulhearn attempted an ingratiating smile, which sat oddly on his careworn face. His fellow students had found him too ingratiating. Synonyms crawling humble toadying bootlicking (informal) timeserving Additional synonymsflanked on all sides by fawning minions Synonyms obsequious, crawling, flattering, cringing, abject, grovelling, prostrate, deferential, sycophantic, servile, slavish, bowing and scraping, bootlicking (informal) The press was flattering. Synonyms ingratiating, complimentary, gratifying, fawning, sugary, fulsome, laudatory, adulatory, honeyed, honey-tongued Synonyms servile, obliging, polite, respectful, courteous, subservient, deferential, obsequiousNearby words ofingratiating - ingrained
- ingratiate
- ingratiate yourself with someone
- ingratiating
- ingratitude
- ingredient
- ingress
Related terms ofingratiating - ingratiate
- ingratiate yourself with someone
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