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And he was a creator and writer on the Showtime series “The Curse,” in which he co-starred as a manipulative television producer with Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone.

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She added that she believes he deserves a long sentence, writing: "He has no interest in changing or becoming better. He will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is."

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"It was strange, but it's done in such a manipulative way you think he's doing you a favour," she explains.

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A UK Athletics disciplinary panel found that Young - who Scotland's Muir stopped working with in 2023 - "ignored medical advice" and "used manipulative and coercive behaviour towards those he coached".

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The agency, which protects consumers from unfair business practices, accused Amazon of duping people into automatically renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions through “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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