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If a smile, a voice, or a manner is ingratiating, it is trying too hard to please. The adjective often describes a way of talking or looking, not only a whole person: an ingratiating smile is a smile that wants something. Same as the verb ingratiate — we use it when we do not quite trust the sweetness. It can sound a little formal; in casual talk someone might just say smarmy or too nice. Calling a person ingratiating is not a compliment, even though the surface meaning is “trying to be liked.”
討好的、巴結的（帶貶義）
組成From the verb ingratiate + -ing, used as an adjective.
同家族的字
- ingratiatethe verb this adjective comes from
- ingratiatinglythe adverb, same stem + -ly
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ingratiatingadj
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Which ingratiates; which attempts to bring oneself into the favour of another, often with flattery or insincerity; smarmy; unctuous; oily.
- an ingratiating smile.
- Mr. Alfred O'Shea, a tenorizing youth from Australia, sang several times at Queen's Hall, and may congratulate himself on being one of the 'catches' of the season. He sang airs from Italian and French operas, and also a number of Irish ditties—naturally, with a name like that and such an ingratiating McCormackian voice.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。