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单词 Machiavel
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Definition of Machiavel in English:

Machiavel

noun 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:

Machiavel

nounˈmakēəˌvel
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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