Machiavelli
- 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.
- Proper noun. A Machiavellian person.
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