Machiavellian

Word MACHIAVELLIAN
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Definitions and meanings of "Machiavellian"

What do we mean by machiavellian?

Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics or in advancing one's career.

Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.

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The word "machiavellian" in example sentences

She has just burned a bridge too many and represents the kind of machiavellian politics people want to see the back of. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sugar suggested the young apprentices might actually be better than their adult equivalents, who have amused audiences for years with their fondness for business jargon, machiavellian plotting and bulletproof self-belief. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In one corner we have stubborn Magdalene, ably aided by the ingenious Captain Wragge, in the other, the repulsive potential bridegroom, sickly Mr Noel Vanstone and his gorgon of a housekeeper, the machiavellian Mrs Lecount who is equally determined to keep him single. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As happens in many sports when hundreds of millions of dollars are involved, the America's Cup has became a machiavellian world in which power struggles and legal machinations matter more than the actual competition. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In addition, one might wonder what the fate will be of Alan Donnelly, Mosley's machiavellian deputy. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

The machiavellian menial Tranio, pretending to be his master Lucentio, has won a assent of Bianca's father to matrimony with him by boasting of his father's huge wealth. ❋ Admin (2009)

Gareth Fordred as the artfully side-swapping Leicester, Tom Radford as the besotted, hot-headed Mortimer and Richard Delaney as the machiavellian Burleigh all make a decisive mark. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Eric Pickles, the machiavellian at the heart of these changes, is revising the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations 1999. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why would some body honorable and intelligent like Chuck Hagel want to team up with an inexperienced, self promoting machiavellian like Obama? ❋ Unknown (2008)

As a while, over 50 California female voter, I am really, really sad to see Clinton's machiavellian antics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is after all, captain of a club renowned for being a hotbed of comically unsubtle behind-the-scenes machiavellian scheming. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Words that spring to mind are machiavellian, duplicitous, self-seeking, oily ... and a load of unprintable others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Quite honestly, I can see Clinton trying to upstage Obama, not for any machiavellian reason, it's just Clinton being Clinton. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That's not to say that Alba was founded by hippies dancing round a hill holding hands there were constant tribal disputes, but I think there is a very different type of machiavellian nation building going on in the Northumbrian areas you've written about in your novel. ❋ Carla (2010)

History has proven time and again that despotism cares not a thing for remedies for the wishes of the people, but only in power and a demand for obedience If this cannot be maintained by machiavellian 'divide & conquer', and a substantial block does unite against them, it is always by draconian force that it is dealt with. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The machiavellian speculation is just silly, people give rove much more credit than he deserves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I heard one pundit say the other day he has shown himself to be the best machiavellian politician out there right now. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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