machiavellian

• “She has just burned a bridge too many and represents the kind of machiavellian politics people want to see the back of.”

  Rendell Likes Idea of Clinton-Obama Ticket - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Lord Sugar attacks youth 'expectancy culture'

• “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.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “Eric Pickles, the machiavellian at the heart of these changes, is revising the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations 1999.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Planning gain for the developers

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Ben Ainslie ready to battle for right to defend Olympic crown

• “In addition, one might wonder what the fate will be of Alan Donnelly, Mosley's machiavellian deputy.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “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.”

  Wilkie Collins’ No Name « Tales from the Reading Room

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Mary Stuart – review

• “He is after all, captain of a club renowned for being a hotbed of comically unsubtle behind-the-scenes machiavellian scheming.”

  The Guardian: World Cup 2010 paper view: A gallon of Alan, in defence of John Terry and the view from France

• “Words that spring to mind are machiavellian, duplicitous, self-seeking, oily ... and a load of unprintable others.”

  Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...

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