machiavelli
IPA: mɑkiʌvˈɛɫi
Root Word: Machiavelli
noun
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
- Someone like Niccolò Machiavelli: a Machiavellian person
Examples of "machiavelli" in Sentences
- Machiavelli would die soon afterwards.
- Machiavelli was already in the article.
- Reminiscent of the Machiavelli's The Prince.
- Machiavelli was in many respects not an innovator.
- Machiavelli's praise of Cesare Borgia was unstinting.
- Machiavelli uses the example of Agathocles the Sicilian.
- His political thought was in the tradition of Machiavelli.
- Machiavelli is the root of disorder in the world and is evil.
- Machiavelli was not a political philosopher in the ordinary sense.
- This is Machiavelli's exhortation in the last chapter of The Prince.