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Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
Word origin
From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
Used in a sentence
“Iago is the Machiavellian antagonist in William Shakespeare's play Othello.”
“The most common reason cited is a Machiavellian one: Police view perjury as a necessary means to achieve the ends of justice.”
“These are the actions of a club flailing around to make things work, not the 4D chess moves of some Machiavellian puppet master.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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