Similar words: manipulation, manipulating, manipulate, stipulate, cumulative, accumulative, population, overpopulation. Meaning: adj. skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage.
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1 She was sly, selfish, and manipulative.
2 She is devious and sly and manipulative.
3 He's extremely manipulative, so don't let him persuade you.
4 He described Mr Long as cold,[www.Sentencedict.com] calculating and manipulative.
5 He is sharp and manipulative with a strong personality.
6 Even as a child she was manipulative and knew how to get her own way.
7 Often this is some form of manipulative skill.
8 What a scheming, clever, manipulative little beast.
9 She was charming and manipulative.
10 Antony here is extremely clever and manipulative.
11 Learning a manipulative skill, such as typing, takes hours.
12 At the same time one must avoid being manipulative.
13 Wary of his manipulative skills, she agreed, on her own terms.
14 Advertisements of the grossest, most manipulative kind, insinuating their poison into every cranny of the country.
15 Jordan is portrayed as mean-spirited and manipulative in the book.
16 He's self-centred, manipulative, insensitive; classic signs of a personality problem.
17 Urquhart is a manipulative murderer who could outfox Machiavelli, while Richardson seems utterly guileless.
18 Under stress these people will appear to be superficial, over-eager and manipulative.
19 Before a child can learn a musical instrument he or she first needs to acquire the necessary manipulative skills.
20 And Tony Bumble and the staff were very, very good at what they did, very manipulative, very smart.
21 The gifts had become a pressure, an embarrassment, and her refusal to accept them had made him manipulative.
22 You might be his daughter only in name, but you've certainly learnt all his nasty, manipulative little tricks.
23 In a medical book, the psychopath is cold-blooded, premeditated, uncaring, manipulative.
24 In the task of fortifying oneself with supportive personal relationships, compadrazgo offers extensive manipulative opportunities.
25 How could I phrase the question so that I could distinguish between free choice and manipulative coercion?
26 Her romantic self-projection is pared away to reveal a character at once complacent, grasping, disingenuous and manipulative ....
27 Some Beach Boys obsessives consider Landy a cruel and manipulative opportunist who brainwashed Brian in order to share his glory.
28 In the early years there is extensive leisure devoted to play in which the basic manipulative and social skills are developed.
29 A marriage begun without financial security looks hazardous to the poet, let alone where the man seems cunning and manipulative.
30 The Lilith-like Herodias and Salome have a certain seductive, manipulative power, but it is negative and destructive.
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