Ingratiating

My fellow citizens is an apostrophe, a formal address to an audience, whose distance has been shortened by the insertion of the ad hominem term fellow—that is, an ingratiating suggestion to his audience that they start out on his side. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

It was this that had suggested to him the idea of ingratiating himself with the men who were in power, and thus gain their friendship, their influences and protection. ❋ Ernest Daudet (1879)

From what I have heard and saw today on the magazine, many people were turned off by the "loser's" ingratiating "Who Me" attitude every week. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2007)

You know, it wasn't probably the best line in kind of ingratiating yourself with New Hampshire voters. ❋ Unknown (2007)

RUSH: Yes, I think it stunned a lot of people, although the members of this group, which migrated to Israel at the end of the '60s led by a Chicago bus driver, they had been kind of ingratiating themselves with Whitney and Bobby for some time and one of them spoke at the recent funeral of her father. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Beautiful to the world is its prosperity, which is like a kind of ingratiating sweetness, false and seductive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beside her sat a yellow and wrinkled woman of forty-five, with a low neck, in a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general. ❋ Unknown (1917)

a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general. ❋ Unknown (2003)

As the players' status has grown, broadcasters in particular seem to have become totally overawed, so that nowadays most post-match interviews are conducted with such a desperate air of nervously ingratiating chumminess, it's like the class nerd has found himself sitting on the back seat of the school bus next to the lads in the leather jackets, with the menthols and the bottle of mixed liqueurs nicked from their parents' drinks cabinet. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Only Chuk Iwuji makes much impression, as the ingratiating, then desperate, dumped co-conspirator, the Duke of Buckingham. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

One problem: When workers become managers, they're often surrounded by employees who flatter them as a way of ingratiating themselves to their boss, said Stanford business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of the book "Power." ❋ Joe Light (2010)

After passing seven years in opposition ingratiating himself with the doctors, Andrew Lansley ought to pay attention to the chair of the BMA consultants' committee. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The deceptively bouncy Looking Back and Just for a Minute, both featuring K'Naan, are ingratiating; but it's more wistful, electro-savvy tracks such as Back in Time and Your Love that will stay with you — and leave you eager for the group's next album. — ❋ Unknown (2010)

She's annoying, and I hope she's decided to spend more time with her family and less time ingratiating herself onto American society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Usoltsev portrays him as an ambivalent ironist—modern in outlook, aware of the corrosion within the Soviet system, a little pedantically legalistic, even, at times, democratic in outlook, but careful to hide any incorrect attitudes in public and skilled at ingratiating himself with his superiors. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

It was clear from what the victims said that Curtis had an established methodology for ingratiating himself with families of young boys, creating trust, and then seizing opportunity when it presented itself. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

Dale had the flat upstate drawl and terse truncated way of speaking that was ingratiating to old-timers and funny to his friends. ❋ Cara Hoffman (2011)