ingratiatingly
- adverb
- /ɪnˈɡreɪʃiˌeɪtɪŋli/
:
de manera aduladora
- "Everybody here hates auditions, I'm sure," he said ingratiatingly.
- smiled ingratiatingly
Examples
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But the man goes on strumming, bending nearer to her, gesticulating and laughing ingratiatingly.
Fiction book (2001) -
"No," she smiled ingratiatingly, "I'm just waiting for a friend."
Fiction book (1990) -
"Thank you," Charlotte offered, ingratiatingly.
Fiction book (1998) -
The wife smiled ingratiatingly at Katy across the table.
Fiction book (1997) -
"I adore you," I said, stroking his boot ingratiatingly.
Fiction book (2000) -
M. Woolf advances ingratiatingly.
Fiction book (1991) -
An ingratiatingly unpleasant moment in life, the problems of puberty are glossed over and never properly tackled.
Academic text (1990) -
You think I cast a magical spell or something that compelled them to come trooping here like mindless zombies or something?" He laughed ingratiatingly.
Fiction book (1998) -
Roberta Reeder's sentences turned up at the end, ingratiatingly; hers was a professional regret polished by years of bureaucratic abrasion.
Fiction book (1997) -
She complimented her boss ingratiatingly in hopes of getting a promotion.
Synonyms
1
4.6
In a way that praises someone more than they deserve
1
9.8
Speaks or acts in a too friendly way that does not seem honest
Antonyms
How Eager
Surface Forms
Morphology
ingratiatingly = ingratiating (transparent) = ingratiate + ing + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'ingratiating', which is transparently derived from the verb 'ingratiate'.
Etymology
Ingratiatingly comes from the parts in- 'in' and gratia 'favor' and shares the same root as grateful, so it originally meant to get 'into someone's favor'. So to behave ingratiatingly is to try to win approval by praising someone or being overly nice.