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Definition of Machiavellian in English: Machiavellianadjective ˌmakɪəˈvɛlɪən Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics. a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres Example sentencesExamples - But however astute or realist Burnham's Machiavellian insight into power politics was, he rarely showed any capacity for canny negotiation himself.
- It is the classic of Holocaust-era anti-Semitism, portraying the Jews as a conniving, Machiavellian race, plotting how to gain power well beyond their puny numbers, through manipulation and money.
- Reuther's political success cannot be read solely in terms of Machiavellian politics.
- Here, of course, was a classic case of Machiavellian politics: the attempt to bend the will of the party to his view by fair means or foul.
- Intimidated, insecure but alive to the bottomless depths of Machiavellian politics that holding down a senior job in RTE entailed, there were few RTE executives prepared to put their heads above the parapet.
- This is not hypocrisy; merely the usual Machiavellian politics in action.
- Professor Burland has been working on the stabilization committee for the last ten years under all sorts of Machiavellian pressures and politics.
- Stella is in thrall, not only to her own irresistible infatuation, but also to a loveless marriage, the repressive conventions of the times and the Machiavellian politics of those around her.
- At best, bottle blondes are equated with an artifice - think Pamela Anderson, Melinda Messenger - and at worst, deceitfulness and Machiavellian scheming.
- Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help.
- To the outsider, unfamiliar with the Machiavellian world of Olympic politics, Gadir may have seemed a surprising choice as his country's IOC representative.
- Yes, you can aspire to be as rich as Sugar but to get there you're going to have to take a lot of flak, much of it in front of an audience of millions, while fending off the Machiavellian manoeuvres of others.
- But it is impossible to take the conspiracy theory seriously, if only because such Machiavellian treachery requires a degree of competence and organisation which ministers patently lack.
- ‘The council is organized purely to promote economic development and shouldn't involve Machiavellian politics,’ KMT spokesman Wang Chih-kang said.
- In Sir Humphrey's hands, Hacker is merely the ball in a Machiavellian game of political ping-pong.
- It has been argued that Cavour's acceptance of the free trade and international convertibility regime is patent evidence of his Machiavellian approach to politics.
- By 1971, Leider was burnt out from the intense, Machiavellian politics of the New York art world.
- There are so many poignant lines about Machiavellian politics and acting that I might try out here, that remaining silent would probably be my best course.
- Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones.
- The prologue to the play is spoken by ‘Machevil’, and Barabas is one of the prototypes for unscrupulous Machiavellian villains in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
Synonyms devious, cunning, crafty, artful, wily, sly, scheming, designing, conniving, opportunistic, insidious, treacherous, perfidious, two-faced, Janus-faced, tricky, double-dealing, unscrupulous, deceitful, dishonest informal foxy
noun ˌmakɪəˈvɛlɪən A person who schemes in a Machiavellian way. Example sentencesExamples - It's a perfect tool for the disingenuous Machiavellians who run Washington today.
- He is not a cynic or a Machiavellian in any traditionally understood sense.
- An accomplished Machiavellian, he used his ill-gotten wealth and his powers of patronage to outfox potential opponents and to keep wavering officials in line.
- Fortunately for him, there are no Machiavellians around to define it in more sinister terms.
- Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians.
- As anybody who has read ‘The Prince’ knows, the true Machiavellian is one everybody thinks is a saint.
- Moreover, the Machiavellian in me cannot help but wryly shake the head in perverse tribute to what the Cubic boys have pulled off.
- Instead of performing as a pursed-lipped Machiavellian, she chooses to play an elegantly miffed Hedda, one who contemptuously, but resignedly surveys the people and setting of her life.
- A remarkable Machiavellian, Edmund sets out to redress that situation by turning his gullible, sensual father against his brother - with considerable, and terrible, success.
- This must have presented quite the dilemma to our little Machiavellians, as they discussed the best way to do away with poor Storm.
- Or am I instead something more vicious - if I'm not a goober, than am I a Machiavellian, an accursed accomplice in horror, waiting to take my role as a future Heidegger?
- And why have these Machiavellians become idealists?
- Simon Russell Beale's Cassius is not so much the scheming Machiavellian, but a timid, bullied character, more resentful than envious of those who hold office.
- If you want to be a Machiavellian, do not expect to enjoy a long career.
- Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
- As Sartre admitted in his eulogy, ‘He reaffirmed the existence of moral fact within the heart of our era… against the Machiavellians, against the golden calf of realism.’
- When we are told that the gods favour her for her ‘virtue,’ it seems that they are using that term in a Machiavellian rather than Christian sense.
- Successful Machiavellians are far more interesting than the ones who botch it up or do it so obviously that they some how lose the Machiavellian nature of it in the process!
Synonyms conspirator, co-conspirator, conspirer, plotter, schemer, colluder, collaborator, conniver
Origin Mid 16th century: from the name of Niccolò Machiavelli (see Machiavelli, Niccolò. Rhymes Chellean, Orwellian, Sabellian, Trevelyan, triskelion Definition of Machiavellian in US English: Machiavellianadjective Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics. a whole range of outrageous Machiavellian manoeuvres Example sentencesExamples - There are so many poignant lines about Machiavellian politics and acting that I might try out here, that remaining silent would probably be my best course.
- This is not hypocrisy; merely the usual Machiavellian politics in action.
- Professor Burland has been working on the stabilization committee for the last ten years under all sorts of Machiavellian pressures and politics.
- It is the classic of Holocaust-era anti-Semitism, portraying the Jews as a conniving, Machiavellian race, plotting how to gain power well beyond their puny numbers, through manipulation and money.
- At best, bottle blondes are equated with an artifice - think Pamela Anderson, Melinda Messenger - and at worst, deceitfulness and Machiavellian scheming.
- ‘The council is organized purely to promote economic development and shouldn't involve Machiavellian politics,’ KMT spokesman Wang Chih-kang said.
- Intimidated, insecure but alive to the bottomless depths of Machiavellian politics that holding down a senior job in RTE entailed, there were few RTE executives prepared to put their heads above the parapet.
- By 1971, Leider was burnt out from the intense, Machiavellian politics of the New York art world.
- Here, of course, was a classic case of Machiavellian politics: the attempt to bend the will of the party to his view by fair means or foul.
- Reuther's political success cannot be read solely in terms of Machiavellian politics.
- To the outsider, unfamiliar with the Machiavellian world of Olympic politics, Gadir may have seemed a surprising choice as his country's IOC representative.
- But however astute or realist Burnham's Machiavellian insight into power politics was, he rarely showed any capacity for canny negotiation himself.
- Wrong is correct in emphasizing how Mobutu, the cunning Machiavellian prince, managed to acquire considerable outside help.
- In Sir Humphrey's hands, Hacker is merely the ball in a Machiavellian game of political ping-pong.
- It has been argued that Cavour's acceptance of the free trade and international convertibility regime is patent evidence of his Machiavellian approach to politics.
- But it is impossible to take the conspiracy theory seriously, if only because such Machiavellian treachery requires a degree of competence and organisation which ministers patently lack.
- Yes, you can aspire to be as rich as Sugar but to get there you're going to have to take a lot of flak, much of it in front of an audience of millions, while fending off the Machiavellian manoeuvres of others.
- Most of them, with Machiavellian cunning, were refusing to answer their telephones.
- Stella is in thrall, not only to her own irresistible infatuation, but also to a loveless marriage, the repressive conventions of the times and the Machiavellian politics of those around her.
- The prologue to the play is spoken by ‘Machevil’, and Barabas is one of the prototypes for unscrupulous Machiavellian villains in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
Synonyms devious, cunning, crafty, artful, wily, sly, scheming, designing, conniving, opportunistic, insidious, treacherous, perfidious, two-faced, janus-faced, tricky, double-dealing, unscrupulous, deceitful, dishonest
noun A person who schemes in a Machiavellian way. Example sentencesExamples - As anybody who has read ‘The Prince’ knows, the true Machiavellian is one everybody thinks is a saint.
- Or am I instead something more vicious - if I'm not a goober, than am I a Machiavellian, an accursed accomplice in horror, waiting to take my role as a future Heidegger?
- Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians.
- Simon Russell Beale's Cassius is not so much the scheming Machiavellian, but a timid, bullied character, more resentful than envious of those who hold office.
- He is not a cynic or a Machiavellian in any traditionally understood sense.
- Fortunately for him, there are no Machiavellians around to define it in more sinister terms.
- Moreover, the Machiavellian in me cannot help but wryly shake the head in perverse tribute to what the Cubic boys have pulled off.
- A remarkable Machiavellian, Edmund sets out to redress that situation by turning his gullible, sensual father against his brother - with considerable, and terrible, success.
- Instead of performing as a pursed-lipped Machiavellian, she chooses to play an elegantly miffed Hedda, one who contemptuously, but resignedly surveys the people and setting of her life.
- It's a perfect tool for the disingenuous Machiavellians who run Washington today.
- An accomplished Machiavellian, he used his ill-gotten wealth and his powers of patronage to outfox potential opponents and to keep wavering officials in line.
- As Sartre admitted in his eulogy, ‘He reaffirmed the existence of moral fact within the heart of our era… against the Machiavellians, against the golden calf of realism.’
- And why have these Machiavellians become idealists?
- This must have presented quite the dilemma to our little Machiavellians, as they discussed the best way to do away with poor Storm.
- When we are told that the gods favour her for her ‘virtue,’ it seems that they are using that term in a Machiavellian rather than Christian sense.
- Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
- If you want to be a Machiavellian, do not expect to enjoy a long career.
- Successful Machiavellians are far more interesting than the ones who botch it up or do it so obviously that they some how lose the Machiavellian nature of it in the process!
Synonyms conspirator, co-conspirator, conspirer, plotter, schemer, colluder, collaborator, conniver
Origin Mid 16th century: from the name of Niccolò Machiavelli (see Machiavelli, Niccolò. |