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- adjective Alternative form of
Machiavellian .
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Examples
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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 2008
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Eric Pickles, the machiavellian at the heart of these changes, is revising the Town and Country Planning Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations 1999.
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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.
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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.
Mary Stuart – review 2012
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In addition, one might wonder what the fate will be of Alan Donnelly, Mosley's machiavellian deputy.
Death throes or battle rejoined? Gordon McCabe 2009
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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.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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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.
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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.
Ben Ainslie ready to battle for right to defend Olympic crown 2011
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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 admin 2009
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In addition, one might wonder what the fate will be of Alan Donnelly, Mosley's machiavellian deputy.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Eponym: cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008