ingratiating
adjective
[ ɪnˈɡreɪʃɪeɪtɪŋ ]
• intended to gain approval or favour; sycophantic.
• "an ingratiating manner"
Similar:
sycophantic,
toadying,
fawning,
crawling,
creeping,
unctuous,
obsequious,
servile,
submissive,
Uriah Heepish,
flattering,
insincere,
smooth,
smooth-talking,
smooth-tongued,
honey-tongued,
silver-tongued,
slick,
slippery,
cloying,
nauseating,
sickening,
greasy,
oily,
saccharine,
wheedling,
cajoling,
smarmy,
slimy,
creepy,
sucky,
bootlicking,
brown-nosing,
ingratiate
verb
• bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them.
• "a sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy"
Similar:
curry favour with,
find the favour of,
cultivate,
win over,
get on the good side of,
get in someone's good books,
toady to,
crawl to,
grovel to,
fawn over,
be obsequious towards,
kowtow to,
bow and scrape to,
play up to,
truckle to,
pander to,
be a yes man/woman to,
be a sycophant to,
flatter,
court,
dance attendance on,
keep someone sweet,
suck up to,
rub up the right way,
lick someone's boots,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin in gratiam ‘into favour’, on the pattern of obsolete Italian ingratiare, earlier form of ingraziare .
