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Перевод: ingratiate
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Тезаурус:
- I spend most of my life trying to ingratiate myself into a sick society rather than trying to smash that society.
- I made no attempt to impress or ingratiate.
- Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss, would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
- He began to smile from exactly the motive Adam had attributed to him, a desire to ingratiate and to defend himself, to turn away wrath.
- The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer.
- His policy is to ingratiate himself with anyone who might be useful to him, a nauseating spectacle.
- It would be tempting to assume that we have evidence here of some direct relationship with the Thynne family, Marquesses of Bath, at nearby Longleat; that may be the case, but an equally likely explanation could be that the family was involved in nothing more than a slightly sycophantic attempt to ingratiate itself in some way with the local aristocracy.
- He agreed with it all, of course, to ingratiate himself, looking deep into her large, green eyes all the while.
- Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status.
- Carter try to ingratiate themselves at our Circulation Not So Bad After All Party, 1990
- The desire to ingratiate a way into the listener's consciousness and thus inveigle an all-important content is the reason all these groups draw inspiration from Sinatra, Bacharach and David, Sondheim, Steely Dan, early seventies' soul, to produce slick, crafted, sophisticated pop.
- He would get to know the cook and ingratiate himself by being agreeable and doing her favours.
- The first was over the board's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen: Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy, and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff.
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