Inveigh vs Ingratiate - What's the difference?
inveigh | ingratiate |
* 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
* 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
* 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
* 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
(obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
* c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
(reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
* 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 15:
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh , ch. 58:
* 2007 July 9, , "
To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
* , "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition),
As verbs the difference between inveigh and ingratiate
is that inveigh is to complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism while ingratiate is to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.inveigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
- Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
- Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
- After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
- He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.
Derived terms
* inveigher * inveighingingratiate
English
Verb
- [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
- [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
p. 283 (Google preview):
- What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?
