MACHIAVELIANS Synonyms

• acting with a specific goal

• acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end

• acting with a specific goal

• marked by skill in deception

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• involving deception

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

• characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive

• deviating from a straight course

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• marked by skill in deception

• beguiling but harmful

• intended to entrap

• working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

• skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans

• acting with a specific goal

• concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

• a slippery smoothness

• a magazine printed on good quality paper

• a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water

• a trowel used to make a surface slick

• made slick by e.g. ice or grease

• superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject

• having only superficial plausibility

• having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk

• marked by skill in deception

• make slick or smooth

• give a smooth and glossy appearance

• causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

• not to be trusted

• marked by skill in deception

• marked by deception

• marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed

• dangerously unstable and unpredictable

• tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans