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Meanings of ingratiatory in English

Calculated to please or gain favor.

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        Pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade.

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              Usage of ingratiatory in English
              1
              Not," touching his elbows again, with an ingratiatory smile, "that one would desire to get rid of you."
              No Thoroughfare
              2
              Cowperwood, disappointed by the outcome of his various ingratiatory efforts, decided to fall back on his old reliable method of bribery.
              The Titan
              Ingratiatory through the time