Machiavellian

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• UK: /ˌmæk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
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• US: /ˌmɑk.i.əˈvɛl.i.ən/
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• rhymes with -ɛliən
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• CMU ARPABET: M AA2 K IY0 AH0 V EH1 L IY0 AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Machiavelli + -an, from the name of the Italian statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.

28 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَكْيافِلِّيّ (makyavilliyy) — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Armenian: մաքիավելյան (makʻiavelyan) — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Bulgarian: лукав (lukav) — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Catalan: maquiavèl·lic — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Danish: machiavellistisk — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Esperanto: makiavela — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Finnish: machiavellimainen — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Finnish: machiavellilainen — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Finnish: häikäilemätön — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• French: machiavélique — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• German: machiavellistisch — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Greek: μακιαβελικός (makiavelikós) — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Italian: machiavellico — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Portuguese: maquiavélico — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Romanian: machiavelic — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Russian: макиавеллистический (makiavellističeskij) — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Spanish: maquiavélico — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Swedish: machiavellisk — attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous methods
• Armenian: մաքիավելյան (makʻiavelyan) — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Bulgarian: макиаве́лски (makiavélski) — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Danish: machiavellistisk — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Finnish: machiavellilainen — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• French: machiavélien — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Greek: μακιαβελικός (makiavelikós) — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Italian: machiavelliano — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Portuguese: maquiaveliano — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Russian: макиавеллистический (makiavellističeskij) — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli
• Spanish: maquiavélico — related to the philosophical system of Niccolò Machiavelli