Reverse Dictionary: INGRATIATE

ADJECTIVES
► GAININ’ winning, winsome, lovable; ingratiating → 1731 Sc.
► GREASY insincere in manner; ingratiating → 1848 sl.
► PARTICULAR of persons: showing special kindness or attention to another, affable, markedly friendly, ingratiating, familiar in manner → 1771 Sc.
► PRESS-THE-FLESH insincere, ingratiating → 1920s sl.
► SLIMY insincere in manner; ingratiating → 1602 sl.
► SMALMY ► SMARMY in the manner of a sycophant; insincere in manner; ingratiating, obsequious; smug → 1924 colloq.
► SMOOTH-FACED having or assuming a bland, ingratiating, or insinuating expression → 1609
► SOAPY insincere in manner; ingratiating, sycophantic, flattering or persuasive → 1854 sl.

ADVERBS
► SMOODGINGLY ingratiatingly → 1962 Aust. sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► HING-TEE an ingratiating person; a parasite → 1957 Sc.
► SMOOTHIE ► SMOOTHY an ingratiating person → 1939 sl., orig. US

VERBS
► BOOTLICK to do subservient things to gain one’s favour; to seek to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour with, to toady → 1845 Amer. dial.
► BROWN to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating → World War II Amer. sl.
► BROWNIE to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BROWN-NOSE to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating →  1935 sl.
► BROWN PAPER to curry favour, to toady; to be excessively deferential or ingratiating → 1968 Amer. dial.
► COSY UP TO to become intimate with; to ingratiate oneself with → 1930s sl., orig. US
► EAT CHEESE to ingratiate oneself; to bring oneself into the favour or good graces of another → 1970 Amer. dial.
► KEEP ONE’S ALLEY GOOD to ingratiate oneself → 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
► KEEP ONE’S MARBLE GOOD to ingratiate oneself → 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MAKE ONE’S ALLEY GOOD to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour by flattering → 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MAKE ONE’S MARBLE GOOD vb. to ingratiate oneself; to curry favour by flattering → 1909 Aust. & NZ sl.
► PISS IN A PERSON’S POCKET to flatter or ingratiate oneself with a person → 1967 sl., orig. Aust.
► PISS IN ONE’S POCKET to ingratiate yourself with a person; to flatter → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► SMARM to flatter someone; to behave in an ingratiating manner → 1911 UK sl.
► SMOODGE ► SMOOGE to act in an ingratiating or fawning manner; to display affection; to behave amorously → 1906 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► TOM ► TOM OUT to be servile or ingratiating → 1963 Amer. dial.