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• v  gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
• s  capable of winning favor
  with open arms and an ingratiating smile
• s  calculated to please or gain favor
  a smooth ingratiating manner

• Charm is not part of his presentation of selfhe makes no effort to be ingratiating.
• In the years since, he has become more confident and to Westerners decidedly less ingratiating.
• In the years since, he has become more confident and to Westerners decidedly less ingratiating.

• ingratiate
• insinuating
• ingratiatory

News & Articles

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• An In Flagrante Discovery and a Meaningful Knee Touch Bring Some Awkwardness to 'Mad Men'
  The article below contains spoilers for "Favors," the June 9, 2013 episode of "Mad Men." The sixth season of "Mad Men" is unlikely to end with an episode entirely from the point of view of Bob Benson (James Wolk), but wouldn't it be great if it did? The show could forget the merger infighting and Don's (Jon Hamm) malaise and just focus on the ingratiating, forever cheerful Bob, who seems to ...
  June 10, 2013 - indieWIRE
• ArtsBeat: The Bob Benson of His Office: James Wolk on His ‘Mad Men’ Role
  James Wolk talks about playing Bob Benson, the overeager, ingratiating “Mad Men” character who has spawned any number of conspiracy theories about what he might really be up to.        
  June 6, 2013 - New York Times
• The Bob Benson of His Office: James Wolk on His ‘Mad Men’ Role
  James Wolk talks about playing Bob Benson, the overeager, ingratiating "Mad Men" character who has spawned any number of conspiracy theories about what he might really be up to.
  June 6, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Barney Frank in Politico
  I am appalled that a leader of the House, who must know what good work is done by our staffs, would take such an inaccurate cheap shot at these people, for the purpose of ingratiating himself with bankers or any other group,Frank wrote.
• Barack Obama in VDARE.com
  Obama writes: "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."
• Ricky Gervais in United Press International
  In his initial open letter, Gervais complained to Obama that "one of your flock has strayed" and "is out and about ingratiating herself with the Great British public."