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.”

  Simon & Schuster: BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES

• “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.”

  Which? or, Between Two Women

• “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.”

  Would Billie Holiday Win American Idol If She Were Still Alive?

• “You know, it wasn't probably the best line in kind of ingratiating yourself with New Hampshire voters.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 6, 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.”

  CNN Transcript May 30, 2003

• “Beautiful to the world is its prosperity, which is like a kind of ingratiating sweetness, false and seductive.”

  WN.com - Photown News

• “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.”

  Chapter XII

• “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.”

  A House of Gentlefolk

• “She's annoying, and I hope she's decided to spend more time with her family and less time ingratiating herself onto American society.”

  Palin attorney warns media over 'defamatory' charges

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Return

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