ingratiate
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Collins Definition
Verb
Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them,
/inˈgrāSHēˌāt/,
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Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them,
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Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them
- - a social climber who had tried to ingratiate herself with the city gentry
Web Definitions:
- gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
- (ingratiating) capable of winning favor; "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
- (ingratiation) the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; "she refused to use insinuation in order to gain favor"
- 'Ingratiation is a strategic attempt to get someone to like you in order to obtain compliance with a request (Vaughan, & Hogg, 2008). Ingratiation is generally conceptualized as a variant of impression management tactics (Buss, Gomes, Higgins & Lauterbach, 1987).
- to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them
- (ingratiating) Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another. The implication is often of flattery or insincerity
- (ingratiation) the use of strategies such a flattery, by which people seek to gain another's favor.