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📚 adj • entry_id 25114

Machiavellian

/ˌmæk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
maquiavélico
Attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods, especially in politics.
Iago is the Machiavellian antagonist in William Shakespeare's play Othello.
The most common reason cited is a Machiavellian one: Police view perjury as a necessary means to achieve the ends of justice.
maquiavélico
Related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli.
As Dr. Spalding notes, the connection that Washington drew "between private morality and national character, between virtue and happiness, hardly seems Machiavellian."
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