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ingratiating
ingratiating
adjective
Definition of INGRATIATING
likely or intended to win one's affection <one of the orphans had a most ingratiating smile>
Related Words adorable, charming, likable (or likeable), lovable (also loveable); affecting, poignant, touching; adulatory, deferential, effusive, flattering, fulsome, groveling (or grovelling), kowtowing, obsequious, servile, sycophantic; drooling, oleaginous, slavering, slobbering; saccharine, soapy, sugary, unctuous
Near Antonyms alienating, disaffecting, displeasing; repugnant, repulsive; arrogant, disdainful, haughty, insolent, proud, scornful
Antonyms unendearing, uningratiating
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