MACHIAVELIAN

Definitions: MACHIAVELIAN

1. Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

1. One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.

Synonyms within Context: MACHIAVELIAN

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cunning	Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.
Falsehood	Artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected.
Improbity	False-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translations: MACHIAVELIAN

Language		Translations for "machiavelian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		achiavelianmay.(various references)

Romanian		machiavelic (cunningly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: MACHIAVELIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-h-i-i-l-m-n-v"
	-3 letters: avalanche.
	-4 letters: achenial, analcime, animalic, calamine, inchmeal, limacine, maniacal, valencia, valiance, velamina.
	-5 letters: almanac, anaemia, anaemic, camelia, caveman, laminae, machine, manacle, melanic, valance, vicinal, viminal.
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