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单词 manipulative
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Leaders need to be manipulative and selfish at times.They are highly manipulative individuals who love to play mind games with you.The real challenge is to discuss changes with those manipulative individuals who cornered you to begin with.They were all manipulative and selfish.He is a manipulative cunning man.His demands on your daughter seem unreasonable, aggressive and emotionally manipulative.The wicked woman in yesterday's case was cunning and manipulative.He was manipulative and cunning, and would resort to anything to get his own way.A life tainted by tragedy has left her emotionally unstable, manipulative and messed up.But at the very least I think the evidence suggests that nasty and manipulative behaviour is not essential.Don't let's minimise his perverse and manipulative behaviour.He was a selfish, manipulative, evil man.Somehow he has mastered the art of conveying feeling, strong feeling, without seeming emotionally manipulative.These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up.

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manipulative

British English: manipulative ADJECTIVE
If someone is manipulative, they skilfully force or persuade people to act in the way that they want.
He described them as cold, calculating and manipulative.
  • American English: manipulative
  • Brazilian Portuguese: manipulador
  • Chinese: 操纵别人的
  • European Spanish: manipulador
  • French: manipulateur
  • German: manupulativ
  • Italian: manipolatore
  • Japanese: >操るのがうまい人を
  • Korean: 교활한
  • European Portuguese: manipulador
  • Latin American Spanish: manipulador

(adjective) 
She described him as cold, calculating and manipulative.
Synonyms
scheming
a cold, scheming villain
calculating
He is a cool, calculating and clever criminal.
cunning
He's a cunning, devious, good-for-nothing so-and-so.
sly
He is devious, sly and manipulative.
designing
the wily cunning of a designing hypocrite
slick
shrewd
She's a shrewd businesswoman.
a shrewd guess
slippery
a slippery customer
unscrupulous
devious
She tracked down the other woman by devious means.
wily
He is an experienced and wily old statesman.
crafty
That crafty old devil had taken us all for a ride.
artful
the smiles and artifices of someone subtly artful
disingenuous
his disingenuous claims of innocence
conniving
I think you are a greedy and conniving person.
Machiavellian
the Machiavellian and devious way decisions were made
guileful

Additional synonyms

in the sense of artful
Definition
cunning
the smiles and artifices of someone subtly artful
Synonyms
cunning,
designing,
scheming,
sharp,
smart,
clever,
subtle,
intriguing,
tricky,
shrewd,
sly,
wily,
politic,
crafty,
foxy,
deceitful
in the sense of calculating
Definition
selfishly scheming
He is a cool, calculating and clever criminal.
Synonyms
scheming,
designing,
sharp,
shrewd,
cunning,
contriving,
sly,
canny,
devious,
manipulative,
crafty,
Machiavellian,
politic,
cautious
in the sense of conniving
I think you are a greedy and conniving person.
Synonyms
scheming,
designing,
plotting,
calculating,
conspiring,
contriving,
caballing,
collusive

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manipulative

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Additional synonyms

in the sense of crafty
Definition
skilled in deception
That crafty old devil had taken us all for a ride.
Synonyms
cunning,
scheming,
sly,
devious,
knowing,
designing,
sharp,
calculating,
subtle,
tricky,
shrewd,
astute,
fraudulent,
canny,
wily,
insidious,
artful,
foxy,
deceitful,
duplicitous,
tricksy,
guileful
in the sense of cunning
Definition
clever at deceiving
He's a cunning, devious, good-for-nothing so-and-so.
Synonyms
crafty,
knowing,
sly,
devious,
artful,
sharp,
subtle,
tricky,
shrewd,
astute,
canny,
wily,
Machiavellian,
shifty (informal),
foxy,
guileful
in the sense of designing
Definition
cunning and scheming
the wily cunning of a designing hypocrite
Synonyms
scheming,
plotting,
intriguing,
crooked (informal),
shrewd,
conspiring,
cunning,
sly,
astute,
treacherous,
unscrupulous,
devious,
wily,
crafty,
artful,
conniving,
Machiavellian,
deceitful
in the sense of devious
Definition
insincere and dishonest
She tracked down the other woman by devious means.
Synonyms
sly,
scheming,
calculating,
tricky,
crooked (informal),
indirect,
treacherous,
dishonest,
wily,
insidious,
evasive,
deceitful,
underhand,
insincere,
surreptitious,
double-dealing,
not straightforward
in the sense of disingenuous
Definition
dishonest and insincere
his disingenuous claims of innocence
Synonyms
dishonest,
cunning,
sly,
designing,
wily,
insidious,
feigned,
artful,
two-faced,
shifty (informal),
deceitful,
insincere,
duplicitous,
underhanded,
guileful,
uncandid
in the sense of guileful
Synonyms
cunning,
clever,
tricky,
sly,
treacherous,
wily,
crafty,
artful,
sneaky,
foxy,
deceitful,
underhand,
duplicitous
in the sense of Machiavellian
Definition
cleverly deceitful and unscrupulous
the Machiavellian and devious way decisions were made
Synonyms
scheming,
cynical,
shrewd,
cunning,
designing,
intriguing,
sly,
astute,
unscrupulous,
wily,
opportunist,
crafty,
artful,
amoral,
foxy,
deceitful,
underhand,
double-dealing,
perfidious (literary)
in the sense of shrewd
Definition
intelligent and making good judgments
She's a shrewd businesswoman.a shrewd guess
Synonyms
astute,
clever,
sharp,
knowing,
fly (slang),
keen,
acute,
smart,
calculated,
calculating,
intelligent,
discriminating,
cunning,
discerning,
sly,
canny,
perceptive,
wily,
crafty,
artful,
far-sighted,
far-seeing,
long-headed (rare),
perspicacious (formal),
sagacious (formal)
in the sense of slippery
Definition
not to be trusted
a slippery customer
Synonyms
untrustworthy,
tricky,
cunning,
false,
treacherous,
dishonest,
devious,
crafty,
evasive,
sneaky,
two-faced,
shifty (informal),
foxy,
duplicitous
in the sense of sly
Definition
secretive and skilled at deception
He is devious, sly and manipulative.
Synonyms
cunning,
scheming,
devious,
secret,
clever,
subtle,
tricky,
covert,
astute,
wily,
insidious,
crafty,
artful,
furtive,
conniving,
Machiavellian,
shifty (informal),
foxy,
underhand,
stealthy,
guileful
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