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Definition of Ingratiating
1. Adjective. Capable of winning favor. "With open arms and an ingratiating smile"
2. Adjective. Calculated to please or gain favor. "A smooth ingratiating manner"
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
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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