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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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Examples for "insinuating"
Examples for "insinuating"
1
A buzzing trombone, an insinuating saxophone: jazz, played a long way off.
Ghost Story
2
The eloquent and insinuating Massillon was called in to talk with her.
The Women of the French Salons
3
He spoke the last words in a tone half insinuating, half ironical.
Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond
4
Evidently he was insinuating that the washerwomen had stolen the linen themselves.
The Darling and Other Stories
5
His precise, insinuating delivery suggested horrors that Turner could not immediately grasp.
Atonement
1
The children were dry; some of them had become ingratiating, even affectionate.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
2
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
4
The constant refrain of ingratiating desperation is in some ways more shocking.
The Guardian
5
So she went right on in her brisk tone of ingratiating authority.
Children of the Whirlwind
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