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Manipulative   Listen
adjective
manipulative  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.
2.
Prone to attempt to influence others by devious or subtle psychological means, in order to induce them to do what one wants.





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"Manipulative" Quotes from Famous Books



... first among the crowd, rushes franticly up stairs. We had an opportunity the other day of seeing the result of a case of the kind. The picture—a work of great fancy and high feeling, but deficient in manipulative skill—the artist, a poet in the true sense of the word, had spent months in dreaming and in joying over. He found it in the dingiest corner of the octagon-room. His lip quivered and his chest heaved. ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 - Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 • Various


Words linked to "Manipulative" :   artful, manipulate


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