Meaning of INGRATIATING
Pronunciation: | | in'greyshee`eyting
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- [adj] calculated to please or gain favor; "a smooth ingratiating manner"
- [adj] capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
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| Synonyms: | | flattering, ingratiatory, pleasing |
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| Related Terms: | | abject, adulatory, apple-polishing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, bootlicking, brown-nosing, buttery, cajoling, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, disarming, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, glib, groveling, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, insinuating, insinuative, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prostrate, saccharine, servile, silken, silky, slimy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, sniveling, soapy, soft-spoken, sponging, suave, suave-spoken, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling |
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