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Significats de insinuating en anglès

Calculated to please or gain favor.

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Examples for "ingratiating"
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The children were dry; some of them had become ingratiating, even affectionate.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
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She was there with the object of ingratiating herself with the Duke.
The Duke's Children
3
The statue melted a trifle in the sunshine of Gabe's ingratiating smile.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
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The constant refrain of ingratiating desperation is in some ways more shocking.
The Guardian
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So she went right on in her brisk tone of ingratiating authority.
Children of the Whirlwind
1
Not," touching his elbows again, with an ingratiatory smile, "that one would desire to get rid of you."
No Thoroughfare
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Cowperwood, disappointed by the outcome of his various ingratiatory efforts, decided to fall back on his old reliable method of bribery.
The Titan
Ús de insinuating en anglès
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A buzzing trombone, an insinuating saxophone: jazz, played a long way off.
Ghost Story
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The eloquent and insinuating Massillon was called in to talk with her.
The Women of the French Salons
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He spoke the last words in a tone half insinuating, half ironical.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
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Evidently he was insinuating that the washerwomen had stolen the linen themselves.
The Darling and Other Stories
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His precise, insinuating delivery suggested horrors that Turner could not immediately grasp.
Atonement
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You were insinuating that you struggled to come back down to earth.
Radio NZ
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Something furry pushed itself against her side in one smooth, insinuating motion.
Coraline
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His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
Derues / Celebrated Crimes
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Ichabod, therefore, made his advances in a quiet and gently insinuating manner.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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All this was expounded in a veiled, clever, discreet and insinuating manner.
Mademoiselle Fifi
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It was indeed Fanny's voice, in its most insinuating and deceitful tones.
Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel
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The recession was hitting Ireland and gradually insinuating itself into people's lives.
The Irish Times
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Her mission was too urgent for her to notice their insinuating remarks.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair / ...
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He was possessed of the most insinuating address, shrewd, penetrating, and inquisitive.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
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There is no suggestion so fatal, so insinuating, as that of impurity.
Pushing to the Front
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His voice had dropped into a soft, silky half-tone, insinuating and persuasive.
The Puritans
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