Usually means: Manipulative for power, cunning, unscrupulous.
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  1. machiavellian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Machiavellian: Merriam-Webster
  3. Machiavellian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Machiavellian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Machiavellian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Machiavellian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Machiavellian, machiavellian: Wordnik
  8. Machiavellian, machiavellian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Machiavellian, machiavellian: Wiktionary
  10. Machiavellian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Machiavellian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Machiavellian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. machiavellian: Dictionary.com
  14. Machiavellian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Machiavellian (horse), Machiavellian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Machiavellian: Rhymezone
  17. machiavellian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Machiavellian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. machiavellian: FreeDictionary.org
  20. Machiavellian: Merriam-Webster

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. machiavellian: Legal dictionary
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  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. machiavellian: A Word A Day
  3. machiavellian: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Machiavellian)

adjective:  Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
adjective:  Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.
noun:  An unscrupulous schemer.
adjective:  Alternative form of Machiavellian [Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.]

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