Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate.
- n. Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in mathematics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to manipulation: as, manipulative power or skill.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to manipulate others.
- adj. pejorative Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
- n. A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.
- adj. Prone to attempt to influence others by devious or subtle psychological means, in order to induce them to do what one wants.
- n. (Education) Any object given to children to encourage them to learn by manipulating physical objects; applied especially to solid objects of varying geometrical shape that can be fit together to form larger aggregates.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
Examples
“He was described as a manipulative, maybe evil guy whose team sang crazy rock songs," Groff says.”
Glee's Jonathan Groff on Jesse St. James' "Rock Scream," Shrugging Off Newsweek
“These days, as an increasing number of adults are discovering what teenagers have long known: Texting lends itself particularly well to manipulative or, in other words, juvenile behavior.”
The Wall Street Journal: Why Texting Turns Us Back Into Teenagers
“On the other side of the aisle, the Obama re-election campaign has quietly opened a counteroffensive against Republican-backed changes to election laws that Democrats say will suppress votes for their candidates and limit their get-out-the-vote drives, a campaign Republicans are calling manipulative.”
The Wall Street Journal: This Week: Europe Trembles, Cain Parries, MF Files
“Fiction, while sometimes manipulative, is not a deception unless it is portrayed as the whole truth; not to be confused with half-truths.”
“NeNe Leakes was another loud mouth bully who picked fights with pop legend Dionne Warwick (maybe warranted), Michael's sis and singer LaToya Jackson (calling her "Casper the Ghost"), 2009 Playmate of the Year Holly Dworacyk (calling her a kiss ass), and talk show host Starr Jones (calling her manipulative).”
The Huffington Post: Joan E. Dowlin: Trump's Disappointing Celebrity Apprentice Decisions
“In ordinary language, an individual that tries to control a relationship is called manipulative, overbearing, or colloquially, “a control freak.””
“What was your interpretation of what some people have described as manipulative, selective leaking about your investigation by people close to your witnesses?”
“Who wants to be knows as the manipulative hot bitch with a paper thin life?”
“The judge was not swayed, calling her manipulative and aggressive.”
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