manipulative
IPA: mʌnˈɪpjʌɫeɪtɪv
noun
- (mathematics) A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
adjective
- Using manipulation purposefully.
- Tending to manipulate.
- (derogatory) Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
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Examples of "manipulative" in Sentences
- He is seductive and manipulative.
- The unattached child is manipulative.
- Are the images purposefully manipulative
- This is manipulative and abusive to the extreme.
- He is seductive and manipulative, and has the wind at his control.
- Who wants to be knows as the manipulative hot bitch with a paper thin life?
- Clancy said Catherina Voss - whom he described as manipulative, selfish and "incredibly evil"
- "He was described as a manipulative, maybe evil guy whose team sang crazy rock songs," Groff says.
- Fiction, while sometimes manipulative, is not a deception unless it is portrayed as the whole truth; not to be confused with half-truths.
- In ordinary language, an individual that tries to control a relationship is called manipulative, overbearing, or colloquially, “a control freak.”
- What was your interpretation of what some people have described as manipulative, selective leaking about your investigation by people close to your witnesses?
- These days, as an increasing number of adults are discovering what teenagers have long known: Texting lends itself particularly well to manipulative or, in other words, juvenile behavior.
- On the other side of the aisle, the Obama re-election campaign has quietly opened a counteroffensive against Republican-backed changes to election laws that Democrats say will suppress votes for their candidates and limit their get-out-the-vote drives, a campaign Republicans are calling manipulative.
- NeNe Leakes was another loud mouth bully who picked fights with pop legend Dionne Warwick (maybe warranted), Michael's sis and singer LaToya Jackson (calling her "Casper the Ghost"), 2009 Playmate of the Year Holly Dworacyk (calling her a kiss ass), and talk show host Starr Jones (calling her manipulative).