How to Use ingratiating in a Sentence

ingratiating

adjective

• Its glossy surface and ingratiating performances make the show go down easy, but the best parts are the ones that stick in your craw.
  — Sam Adams, Slate Magazine, 19 May 2017
• Rankin has a gift for ingratiating stage patter and the good vibes permeate the songs as well.
  — chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2017
• Fairey's script is far too pat and ingratiating to matter much.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2 July 2018
• What’s left of his blond hair is set off by a bandanna, and his voice is laid-back but definite, with an ingratiating hint of a rasp.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018
• Such ingratiating laughs are even more common on late-night TV.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2017
• Two years ago, Schwab drew criticism for what was viewed as an awkwardly ingratiating speech to welcome Trump to the forum.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2020
• The production has the feel of a pop concert, with the ingratiating performers dancing up the aisles and exhorting the audience to respond.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2020
• The role of a hectoring sideshow attraction is not the opera’s most ingratiating element, but this production puts a twist on it.
  — Micaela Baranello, New York Times, 9 July 2017
• Very ingratiating and personal,’’ said Edward Bass, a movie producer who spent time with Greenberg in Moscow in that time.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
• The filmmaker’s style does include its share of ingratiating remarks.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2017
• The filmmaker's style does include its share of ingratiating remarks.
  — Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2017
• While this isn’t the typical attitude for Twitch streamers, the idea was that there was something valid or potentially valuable about this less ingratiating approach.
  — Patricia Hernandez, The Verge, 31 Oct. 2018
• Certainly the greatest living guitarist with direct ties to the golden age of Chicago blues, and still an ingratiating entertainer at 81.
  — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• Yet the music’s ingratiating flourishes seem to have been assembled in a parallel universe.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• Sater was skilled at deciphering financial fraud, and as is often the case, the same things that made him a successful criminal — his ingratiating charm, his street smarts, his ability to see all the angles — made him a very useful government asset.
  — Andrew Rice, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Aug. 2017
• Love for cross-country became an essential national trait, one that any ingratiating foreigner has to embrace.
  — David Segal, The Seattle Times, 24 Feb. 2018
• There’s something mildly sinister about the interlopers, with their ingratiating smiles, aw-shucks mannerisms and continued refusal to leave.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• The marathon keynote received ingratiating praise from ambassadors and delegates.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• The press reported on nauseatingly ingratiating remarks Trump made about Putin, speculating that maybe there’s something corrupt afoot.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 13 Jan. 2018
• The six pieces collected on this noble, vibrantly executed two-disc set are unabashed in their combination of robust, often rhapsodic string writing and an ingratiating harmonic language.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
• Brownlee devoted the second half of his program to more conventional recital fare — a pair of his specialty bel canto arias, standards from the great American songbook and several spirituals, interspersed with ingratiating commentary.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2018

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