transcription, транскрипция: [ mækiəveliən ]
If you describe someone as Machiavellian , you are critical of them because they often make clever and secret plans to achieve their aims and are not honest with people.
...Machiavellian republicans plotting to destabilise the throne...
A Machiavellian plot was suspected.
= devious
ADJ : usu ADJ n [ disapproval ]