Definition of "machiavellian" [machiavellian]

• Alternative form of Machiavellian. (adjective)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."