With open arms and an ingratiating smile. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A smooth ingratiating manner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an ingratiating manner. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), : He ingratiated himself with all the guests. From Dictionary.com.
You know, it wasn't probably the best line in kind of ingratiating yourself with New Hampshire voters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2007] Reference
His manners in private life were most ingratiating. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
It's easy to be ingratiating in your own fraternity. From Wordnik.com. [What Bush Needs To Learn] Reference
Digby's manner appeared as softly ingratiating as ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Leila turned to Marjorie with a wide ingratiating smile. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
Humble, ingratiating, but retaining some scrap of dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
It's Lee's ingratiating innocence that holds it all together. From Wordnik.com. [A Wild Child Revisited] Reference
"Yes," he replied in his most ingratiating manner, drawing near her. From Wordnik.com. [Little Lost Sister] Reference
Engleton, with a somewhat ingratiating upward gaze of her blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Surely his manners were the least ingratiating Esther had ever known in. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
To a certain extent, both are about ingratiating yourself to the public. From Wordnik.com. [NEWSMAKERS] Reference
Indeed, Edwards's ingratiating incandescence has already brightened Kerry. From Wordnik.com. [Warming Up Kerry] Reference
Then something with an ingratiating waggle pushed gladly against his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
Then he was struck with an idea and he affected his most ingratiating manner. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Sioeng may have seen a way to make money while ingratiating himself with China. From Wordnik.com. [Cracking A Chinese Code] Reference
"I am so glad to save you this drudgery," he observed, with an ingratiating smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Then, abruptly, the moonshiner's expression changed to one meant to be ingratiating. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
It was because James was incredibly engaging, articulate, discerning, and ingratiating. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Densen: Time to Have an Impact] Reference
There's a fine borderline between entertaining an audience and ingratiating oneself with it. From Wordnik.com. [You Gotta Have Heart] Reference
The flirtation — ingratiating your target with strategic body language and choice phrases. From Wordnik.com. [Seducing Matt Mitcham] Reference
It looks ingratiating rather than imposing, and that is probably one reason for its popularity. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of The New York Public Library] Reference
"You needn't bother about giving me the directions," said Westland, with an ingratiating smile. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
It swung up, and he saw a pock-marked face that was twisted in a smile meant to be ingratiating. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
When the matter was concluded, Mr. North cleared his throat with a nervous but ingratiating smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
'But you'll take off something for us, won't you?' hastily added the woman in an ingratiating tone. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
At the CIA, he chose loyalty to an ingratiating holdover, George Tenet, over necessary housecleaning. From Wordnik.com. [What We Really Need To Know] Reference
Stefani has the blondest hair, the barest midriff and the most shamelessly ingratiating style on MTV. From Wordnik.com. [Skanks, But No Skanks] Reference
Kenneth worked on ingratiating himself with Silverman, and two weeks ago, the Kimeses made some calls. From Wordnik.com. [A Mystery In Manhattan] Reference
She had already taken a step toward ingratiating herself with Mrs. Arthur, and with tolerable success. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Some of these kids believe that ingratiating themselves with teachers and professors is the proper path to success. From Wordnik.com. [Sucking Up Has Its Limits] Reference
I was confronted with the vastitude of the universe at once, without the ingratiating introduction of the fairy tale. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Clinton's ingratiating personality, engaging up close, makes many viewer-voters uncomfortable in the age of Talk Show Democracy. From Wordnik.com. [People's Politics] Reference
He had an engaging habit of appearing at the door of Sara's sitting-room with an ingratiating: "I say, may I come in for a yarn?". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
His ingratiating manners soon made him a favorite with the women of the party also, and he spared no pains to deepen this impression. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
In the front row Lady Douglass stood up, nodded, gave brief ingratiating smiles, and told people how remarkably well they were looking. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
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