Verb:

గ్రిజ్జ్,

ingratiate's Usage Examples:

Though a man of very slender accomplishments, he ingratiated himself with the royal family by calling himself Phoenix, and Alexander.

was a contemporary of Alexander the Great (336–323 BC), with whom he ingratiated himself even before the death of Philip II, previous king of Macedon.

character Hendrik Höfgen abandon his conscience and continue to act and ingratiate himself with the Nazi Party to keep and improve his job and social position.

years, he became critical of the life of an official as he refused to ingratiate himself with senior officials.

ingratiates himself with the ruling class, the knightly Order of Qarar, and enmeshes the knights in a scheme to establish a lottery and peddle a perpetual motion.

Perovskii however had his own plans and used the rare specimen to ingratiate himself with the Imperial family by presenting it to the future Tsar and naming it Alexandrite in his honor on April 17, 1834, but it wasn't until 1842 that the description of the color changing chrysoberyl was published for the first time under the name of alexandrite.

She ingratiates herself with the family and eventually becomes a permanent fixture.

James" cause at the Battle of the Boyne he was accused of attempting to ingratiate himself with the new regime, but soon afterwards he was attainted.

After a prank during which her clothes are stolen, Rita ingratiates herself with the natives and infatuates George.

However, Conan ingratiates himself with the raiders, and together they resume the pursuit of the.

ingratiates herself with the children with her supportive affection and positiveness.

Powell "ingratiated himself into the Dickens household" and was discovered to be a forger.

Synonyms:

suck up, cotton up, play up, keep in line, cozy up, sidle up, manipulate, control, shine up,

Antonyms:

intemperance, unrestraint, powerlessness, derestrict, inactivity,