ingratiating manner

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• ingratiating — adj. 1. capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile. [WordNet 1.5] 2. calculated to please or gain favor; as, an unctuous, ingratiating manner. Syn: ingratiatory. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• ingratiating — adjective 1. capable of winning favor with open arms and an ingratiating smile • Similar to: ↑pleasing 2. calculated to please or gain favor a smooth ingratiating manner • Syn: ↑insinuating, ↑ingratiatory …   Useful english dictionary

• ingratiating — ingratiatingly, adv. /in gray shee ay ting/, adj. 1. charming; agreeable; pleasing. 2. deliberately meant to gain favor: an ingratiating manner. [1635 45; INGRATIATE + ING2] * * * …   Universalium

• ingratiating — adjective trying too hard to get someone s approval: I can t stand that ingratiating manner of his. ingratiatingly adverb …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• manner — n. 1) an arrogant, cavalier, imperious, overbearing; awkward; boorish; businesslike; casual, hit or miss, offhand, relaxed; charming; cloying; coarse, crude, rude, uncouth; courteous, polite; cursory; debonair; flippant; forthcoming; friendly;… …   Combinatory dictionary

• ingratiating — in gra·ti·at·ing || ɪn greɪʃɪeɪtɪŋ adj. unctuous; pleasing in·gra·ti·ate || ɪn greɪʃɪeɪt v. act in a pleasant and agreeable manner; deliberately attempt to gain favor …   English contemporary dictionary

• fulsome — fulsome, oily, unctuous, oleaginous, slick, soapy are comparable when they mean too obviously extravagant or ingratiating to be accepted as genuine or sincere. Fulsome stresses a surfeit of something which in proper measure is not displeasing but …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• coax — [kōks] vt. [orig. slang, “to make a coax of” < obs. slang coax, cox, cokes, a fool, ninny] 1. to induce or try to induce to do something; (seek to) persuade by soothing words, an ingratiating manner, etc.; wheedle 2. to get by coaxing vi. to… …   English World dictionary

• ingratiatory — adjective 1. pleasingly persuasive or intended to persuade a coaxing and obsequious voice her manner is quiet and ingratiatory and a little too agreeable • Syn: ↑coaxing • Similar to: ↑persuasive 2. calculated to please or gain favor …   Useful english dictionary

• smoodge — (also smooge) Austral./NZ informal verb 1》 behave amorously. 2》 behave in an ingratiating manner. noun 1》 a display of amorous affection. 2》 an act or instance of being ingratiating. Derivatives smoodger noun Origin early 20th cent.: prob. an alt …   English new terms dictionary

• ingratiate — a 17c Latinate loanword, is now normally used reflexively (with oneself etc.) in the meaning ‘to render oneself agreeable to someone, to bring oneself into favour with someone’: • The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate… …   Modern English usage