A person compared to Machiavelli for favouring expediency over morality.
〈古〉马基雅弗利式不择手段的人
Example sentencesExamples
Shakespeare, in one of his works, mentions ‘the murderous Machiavel.’
The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
The murderous Machiavel, as Shakespeare called him, has never ceased to be an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike.
He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
But in the final scenes the icily regal Turner turns into a Tudor Machiavel as she seeks to distance herself from the death warrant she has signed: this is acting on the grand scale.
Definition of Machiavel in US English:
Machiavel
nounˈmakēəˌvel
archaic
A person compared to Machiavelli for favoring expediency over morality.
〈古〉马基雅弗利式不择手段的人
Example sentencesExamples
The murderous Machiavel, as Shakespeare called him, has never ceased to be an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike.
He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did.
Shakespeare, in one of his works, mentions ‘the murderous Machiavel.’
The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel.
But in the final scenes the icily regal Turner turns into a Tudor Machiavel as she seeks to distance herself from the death warrant she has signed: this is acting on the grand scale.