Meanings of ingratiation in inglês

A hansom cab offers peculiar facilities for the aforesaid process of ingratiation.

Not a hint of ingratiation, and all the more winning for that.

Not merely by ingratiation or sincerity, and not by being famous or beautiful.

But I liked her startling asperity; the idea that mentioning him was an ingratiation.

The woman shifted her position, and changed her tone to one of cunning ingratiation.

The old fellow had a nice line in self-pitying ingratiation.

He could not resist her beauty, her warmth, her ingratiation.

He said in a voice permanently gruff, but impregnated with a species of professional ingratiation:

He had a remarkable gift of ingratiation with anyone who could be of service to him.

It was as if she were amused, not absent-minded nor yet a prey to the feminine immorality of ingratiation.

For Gordy, when absolutely forced to face an unknown woman, could bring to the encounter a certain bluff ingratiation.

Marie stood framed in her wild cucumber-vine, regarding the captain with her pretty ingratiation, but not another smile she got.

He petted her, and she slid into his arms with a child-like ingratiation that made his heart swell with pity.

The only other way was by ingratiation, but I was damned if that was ever going to happen to me again.

No wonder that Judd, unlike his foremost contemporary, the all-forgiving Andy Warhol, has no iconic presence in the larger culture: he is ingratiation-free.

A normal reaction might run the gamut from panic, fear, and offers of cooperation, through self-pity and ingratiation to anger, even defiant threats.