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machiavellian
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to Machiavelli, the Florentine statesman, or to his principles of political deceit; hence, crafty; double- dealing.
Part of speech: NounMachiavellianism.
Usage examples "machiavellian":- He felt that he had achieved a Machiavellian victory, and it pleased him to watch me squirm with a sense of frustrated possibilities. - "The Portal of Dreams", Charles Neville Buck.
- Mahaffy describes it as " one of the most interesting and instructive documents of the age, very remarkable for its Machiavellian tone, in its calm ignoring of the right and wrong of the case as irrelevant." - "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece", Various.
- This Iago- like tab and the almost fierce brilliancy of his concentrated gaze gave to his countenance at times a sinister, Machiavellian expression that was irresistible and which, to my thinking, seriously marred an otherwise fine face. - "The-Darrow-Enigma", Severy, Melvin Linwood.