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Definition of Machiavel in English: Machiavelnoun ˈmakɪəvɛlˈmakēəˌvel archaic A person compared to Machiavelli for favouring expediency over morality. Example sentencesExamples - Shakespeare, in one of his works, mentions ‘the murderous Machiavel.’
- The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
- The murderous Machiavel, as Shakespeare called him, has never ceased to be an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike.
- He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
- But in the final scenes the icily regal Turner turns into a Tudor Machiavel as she seeks to distance herself from the death warrant she has signed: this is acting on the grand scale.
Definition of Machiavel in US English: Machiavelnounˈmakēəˌvel archaic A person compared to Machiavelli for favoring expediency over morality. Example sentencesExamples - The murderous Machiavel, as Shakespeare called him, has never ceased to be an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike.
- He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
- Shakespeare, in one of his works, mentions ‘the murderous Machiavel.’
- The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
- But in the final scenes the icily regal Turner turns into a Tudor Machiavel as she seeks to distance herself from the death warrant she has signed: this is acting on the grand scale.
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