Machiavellianin a sentence
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I worry about her Machiavellian thinking.
Machiavellian = relating to Niccolo Machiavelli's principles; i.e., the use of deception and manipulation without concern for morals in order to achieve a desired goal
- Clement's Machiavellian operation came off with clockwork precision.† (source)
- I admit: I'm either an incurable romantic or a bit Machiavellian.† (source)
- In response, George Johnstone, a dashing figure who had once served as governor of West Florida, delivered one of the longest, most vehement declamations of the night, exclaiming, "Every Machiavellian policy is now to be vindicated towards the people of America."† (source)
- I can hear the tenors soaring in triumph and the Machiavellian bassos slinking offstage in defeat.† (source)
- Just a few short weeks after being named attorney general, Bobby Kennedy received a special file from J. Edgar Hoover, the pug-nosed and Machiavellian head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.† (source)
- How could anyone be so admittedly Machiavellian in the presence of a proposed victim?† (source)
- Adams remained adamantly opposed, convinced Howe was up to "Machiavellian maneuvers."† (source)
- Because a world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.† (source)
- "That's a very Machiavellian speech; it doesn't deserve an answer.† (source)
- The artful diplomatist and disciple of the Machiavellian Binkie!† (source)
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- Miss Lavish gave a Machiavellian smile.† (source)
- That land which knows not truth," he continued with Machiavellian subtlety, "that land of infinite fiction makes bad reading for any boy; and is certainly not what I should choose or recommend for my young friend here, who is already so much inclined to melancholy, for a heart already predisposed to receive its impressions.† (source)
- So this Machiavellian captain of infantry cast about him for some happy means or stratagem by which he could gently and gradually bring the Misses Osborne to a knowledge of their brother's secret.† (source)
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