manipulative

Looking back, Claire now realises that Sykes, who also died in the fire, had been manipulative and controlling throughout their relationship.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Arasha enjoys a few choice manipulative moves in her litany of parts, reversing situations that seem to have no obvious good outcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Once the curbs are lifted, he argues children aged 15 and over would still be "exposed to predatory, addictive, manipulative and extractive systems which are recognised as harmful".

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

“He was a very manipulative man,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The Nazis accorded music considerable esteem, hoping to shape the course of musical history by manipulative policies affecting the production and reception of music across the vast territories they eventually controlled.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“Kids should be outside, they should be playing, they should be using manipulatives and tactiles.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

I could suggest ways of bringing manipulatives to traditional paper and pencil mathematics.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2020

This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive