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Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. alternative form of Machiavellian.
Examples
“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 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.”
“Eric Pickles, the machiavellian at the heart of these changes, is revising the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations 1999.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He is after all, captain of a club renowned for being a hotbed of comically unsubtle behind-the-scenes machiavellian scheming.”
“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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Personality
these words are more than mere descriptions of a person's behavior.
They entail in themselves the power to accurately define an individual.martinet, machiavellian, convivial, gregarious, insouciant, nonchalant, haggler, woebegone, thievish, haranguer, yenta, refractory and 1 more...
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Fallacious Favourites
spurious, defunct, fungible, palimpsestic, lascivious, sliver, reiterate, efface, fiefdom, rambunctious, clamorous, verbatim and 4 more...
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Dean Koontz Life Expectancy
Words I'm learning or investigating that I found by reading Life Expectancy (not all words are in the book).
chutzpah, luminous, torchieres, dunderheaded, inane, lummox, fox-trot, rumba, cha-cha, tango, swing, flub and 37 more...
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And i thought my words were "bad"!
malevolent, machiavellian, duplicitous, deceitful, rancorous, spiteful, malignant, cunning, vindictive, tyrannical, imperious, despotic and 10 more...
whichbe Eponym: cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous. (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008