ingratiate

The highest society then consisted, and I think always consist, of four sorts of people: rich people who are received at Court, people not wealthy but born and brought up in Court circles, rich people who ingratiate themselves into the Court set, and people neither rich nor belonging to the Court but who ingratiate themselves into the first and second sets.

My object in writing the following pages was not simply to amuse the Reader; neither was it to gratify my own taste, nor yet to ingratiate myself with the Press and the Public: I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself in our good opinion.

Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these slights and with what unwearying politeness he kept on trying to ingratiate himself with all.

The only way, as it appears to me, of solving this difficulty, is, by imputing it to that distance which was now grown between the lady and the housekeeper: whether this arose from a jealousy in Mrs Blifil, that Wilkins showed too great a respect to the foundling; for while she was endeavouring to ruin the little infant, in order to ingratiate herself with the captain, she was every day more and more commending it before Allworthy, as his fondness for it every day increased.

In hopes to ingratiate myself further into his majesty's favour, I told him of "an invention, discovered between three and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder, into a heap of which, the smallest spark of fire falling, would kindle the whole in a moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in the air together, with a noise and agitation greater than thunder.

He tries to ingratiate himself by offering Karl's homegrown fruit to the locals - but when they find it's been contaminated, he's in the firing line again.

On the wards, Dominic (David Ames) tries to ingratiate himself with the new consultant, Ange Goddard (Dawn Steele) - but he fails miserably Elsewhere, Cameron is out of his league when he clashes with Jac.

Claire King evoked the craziest days of Dynasty in her return as Kim Tate, sniping at anyone who tried to ingratiate with her in her finest Alexis voice ("I don't go to cafes", she told Brenda, who was rather proud of the fact she happens to run one).

President Duterte's gofers at the Department of Justice (Secretary Menardo Guevarra and his public/state prosecutors) may have really gone overboard and risked ridicule just to ingratiate themselves to the man who wields the power to appoint them to more lucrative sinecures.

Their status as political opposites even helps the relationship: UK Prime Minister Theresa May endured a domestic backlash after early attempts to ingratiate herself with Trump because they seemed to justify fears that she was driving post-Brexit Tories in a Trumpian direction.

Ethics experts expressed concern that foreign governments might favor the hotel with their business to ingratiate themselves with the president.