ingratiating as an adjective: - 1
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ingratiating
adjective
1 ingratiating
Capable of winning favor.
Roget 894:
courteous,
polite,
civil,
mannerly,
urbane;
well-behaved,
well-mannered,
well-bred,
well-brought up;
good-mannered,
polished,
civilized,
cultivated;
refined
etc.
(taste)
850;
gentlemanlike
etc.
(fashion)
852†;
gallant;
on one's good behavior.
fine spoken,
fair spoken,
soft-spoken;
honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued;
oily,
bland;
obliging,
conciliatory,
complaisant,
complacent;
obsequious
etc.
886.
ingratiating,
winning;
gentle,
mild;
good-humored,
cordial,
gracious,
affable,
familiar;
neighborly.
diplomatic,
tactful,
politic;
artful
etc.
702.
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2 ingratiating
Moby thesaurus: abject, adulatory, apple-polishing, backscratching, beggarly, bland, bootlicking, brown-nosing, buttery, cajoling, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, deferential, disarming, fair-spoken, fawning, fine-spoken, flattering, footlicking, fulsome, glib, groveling, hangdog, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, insinuating, insinuative, mealymouthed, obeisant, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, on bended knee, parasitic, prostrate, saccharine, servile, silken, silky, slimy, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, sniveling, soapy, soft-spoken, sponging, suave, suave-spoken, sugary, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unctuous, wheedling ... show more.
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