MACHIAVELLIAN


Meaning of MACHIAVELLIAN in English

adj. elaborately cunning; scheming, unscrupulous. machiavellianism n.

[ N. dei Machiavelli, Florentine statesman and political writer d. 1527, who advocated resort to morally questionable methods in the interests of the State ]

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