How to Use ingratiating in a Sentence

ingratiating

adjective
  • Fairey's script is far too pat and ingratiating to matter much.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2 July 2018
  • Rankin has a gift for ingratiating stage patter and the good vibes permeate the songs as well.
    — chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • Such ingratiating laughs are even more common on late-night TV.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jehosheba’s mother has her daughter recite an ingratiating thank-you speech to the Aunts.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yet the music’s ingratiating flourishes seem to have been assembled in a parallel universe.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The marathon keynote received ingratiating praise from ambassadors and delegates.
    — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sweeney stars as Penny Jo, a South Dakota diner waitress with an appealing smile, an ingratiating stammer, a scarf in her hair, and deep reserves of ruthless ambition.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Still, on a moment-to-moment basis, the film has tension, strong character dynamics and sharp individual portraits whose astringency gets alleviated by Gottsagen and James’ more ingratiating turns.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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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