Machiavellian

Example Sentences

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Her Machiavellian exploits include dissuading a former employee from testifying before a Senate committee about the sexual misconduct at Waystar and leaking details about Kendall’s struggles with addiction and mental illness to the press.

From Los Angeles Times

These are the actions of a club flailing around to make things work, not the 4D chess moves of some Machiavellian puppet master.

From New York Times

Kendall Graveman was never asked to assume this position, nor did he have some Machiavellian motive to take it over in some sort of a clubhouse coup.

From Seattle Times

But rather than the transactional, Machiavellian flavor of that last American crime rampage, pandemic crime seems a little more bizarre and tilted.

From Washington Post

He has been anticipating such a challenge since the start of the play, and his Machiavellian wiles have already kicked into high gear.

From Los Angeles Times