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1. Capable of winning favour
   "with open arms and an ingratiating smile"
    
2. Calculated to please or gain favour
   "a smooth ingratiating manner";
   - insinuating, ingratiatory

1. Gain favour with somebody by deliberate efforts
   "Despite all his attempts to ingratiate himself with his prospective father-in-law, the young man found he could hardly do anything to please him"

See also: flattering, pleasing

Type of: control, keep in line, manipulate

Encyclopedia: Ingratiating