Meaning

1 senses

  1. An unscrupulous schemer.

More definitions
  • a follower of Machiavelli's principles

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Your enemies know machiavellian politics.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · Amastan · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  2. Tom is a very Machiavellian person.

    CC BY 2.0 FR · Tatoeba · shekitten · A2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

  3. Was Machiavelli really that Machiavellian?

    CC0 · Tatoeba · shekitten · A1Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiave

From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: Machiavellians

Synonyms

3 synonyms
MachiavellianistMachiavellistMachiavel

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
macemachetemachineA1machinerymachinist
Machiavellian — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto