Machiavelli

  1. Proper noun.  Niccolò ''Machiavelli'' (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work ''The Prince'' (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.
  2. Proper noun.  A Machiavellian person.

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