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- Machiavellianism
- the political doctrine of Machiavelli: any means (however unscrupulous) can be used by a ruler in order to create and maintain his autocratic government
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- politics
collapse - the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs
- the study of government of states and other political units
- the opinion you hold with respect to political questions
- social relations involving authority or power related words >
- Geopolitik,
- Machiavellianism,
- Machiavellism,
- civics,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatics,
- geopolitics,
- government,
- international relations,
- jobbery,
- jobbing,
- machination,
- manipulation,
- poli-sci,
- political behavior,
- political economy,
- political geography,
- political philosophy,
- political science,
- political theory,
- public administration,
- statecraft,
- statesmanship
- treason
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- a crime that undermines the offender's government
- disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior related words >
- Golconda,
- Machiavellianism,
- apostasy,
- backsliding,
- betrayal,
- bolt,
- breach of trust,
- breakaway,
- collaboration,
- crossing-over,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- desertion,
- disloyalty,
- duplicity,
- eldorado,
- faithlessness,
- fifth-column activity,
- fraternization,
- going over,
- gold mine,
- high treason,
- lese majesty,
- mine,
- misprision,
- misprision of treason,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- petty treason,
- quislingism,
- ratting,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recreancy,
- renunciation,
- secession,
- sedition,
- seditiousness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- treasure,
- treasure trove,
- treasure-house,
- treasury,
- turning traitor
- Machiavellianism,
- Punic faith,
- ambidexterity,
- artifice,
- barratry,
- breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- breaking,
- contravention,
- cunning,
- deceitfulness,
- dereliction,
- disaffection,
- dishonesty,
- disloyalty,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fickleness,
- improbity,
- inconstancy,
- infidelity,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- low cunning,
- mala fides,
- offense,
- recreancy,
- transgression,
- treachery,
- trespass,
- trothlessness,
- two-facedness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unsteadfastness,
- untrueness,
- violation,
- wile
- duplicity
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- acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another related words >
- Janus,
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- conjugation,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dichotomy,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- equivocality,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- furtiveness,
- guile,
- halving,
- hypocrisy,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- irony,
- low cunning,
- pairing,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- polarity,
- shiftiness,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- surreptitiousness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- underhandedness,
- wile
- treachery
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- an act of deliberate betrayal related words >
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- cunning,
- danger,
- deceitfulness,
- desultoriness,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonesty,
- disloyalty,
- double cross,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- hazard,
- improbity,
- infirmity,
- insecurity,
- insolidity,
- instability,
- insubstantiality,
- low cunning,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- peril,
- perilousness,
- precariousness,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- sellout,
- shakiness,
- shiftiness,
- shiftingness,
- slipperiness,
- speculativeness,
- ticklishness,
- treacherousness,
- treason,
- two-facedness,
- unauthenticity,
- unauthoritativeness,
- undependability,
- unfaithworthiness,
- unreliability,
- unsolidity,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- wile
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- ambidextrous,
- artful,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceitfulness,
- dirty pool,
- dirty trick,
- dirty work,
- dishonest,
- dishonesty,
- double,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicitous,
- duplicity,
- faithless,
- faithlessness,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- foul play,
- fraud,
- hanky-panky,
- hypocritical,
- improbity,
- left-handed,
- low cunning,
- perfidious,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- sharp practice,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- treacherous,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trickery,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- two-facedness,
- wile
- Machiavellianism,
- Machiavellism,
- agency,
- barter,
- bartering,
- brokerage,
- buying and selling,
- consumer preference study,
- consumer research,
- consumer survey,
- dealing,
- diplomacy,
- diplomatics,
- direct-mail selling,
- doing business,
- exchange,
- give-and-take,
- hard sell,
- hawking,
- high-pressure salesmanship,
- horse trading,
- huckstering,
- interchange,
- jobbery,
- legal bucketing,
- low-pressure salesmanship,
- mail-order selling,
- market research,
- marketing,
- marketing research,
- merchandising,
- peddling,
- politics,
- promotion,
- retailing,
- sales campaign,
- sales promotion,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- sellout,
- soft sell,
- stockbrokerage,
- stockbroking,
- stockjobbery,
- stockjobbing,
- swapping,
- trade,
- trading,
- trafficking,
- wheeling and dealing,
- wholesaling
- dishonesty
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- lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
- the quality of being dishonest related words >
- Machiavellianism,
- ambidexterity,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- bunco,
- cardsharping,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- corruptedness,
- corruption,
- corruptness,
- cozenage,
- credibility gap,
- criminality,
- crookedness,
- cunning,
- deceitfulness,
- deviousness,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- dishonor,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- evasiveness,
- faithlessness,
- falseheartedness,
- falsehood,
- falseness,
- feloniousness,
- fibbery,
- fibbing,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- gerrymandering,
- graft,
- grift,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- hanky-panky,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- improbity,
- indirection,
- low cunning,
- lying,
- mendaciousness,
- mendacity,
- mythomania,
- pseudology,
- racket,
- scam,
- shadiness,
- sharp practice,
- shiftiness,
- slipperiness,
- swindle,
- treachery,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- truthlessness,
- two-facedness,
- unconscientiousness,
- underhandedness,
- unsavoriness,
- unscrupulousness,
- unstraightforwardness,
- untruthfulness,
- unveraciousness,
- wile
- diplomacy
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- negotiation between nations related words >
- Eisenhower Doctrine,
- Machiavellianism,
- Machiavellism,
- Monroe Doctrine,
- Nixon Doctrine,
- Truman Doctrine,
- ability,
- address,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- airmanship,
- appeasement,
- artfulness,
- artisanship,
- artistry,
- balance of power,
- bravura,
- brilliance,
- brinkmanship,
- capability,
- capacity,
- cleverness,
- coexistence,
- colonialism,
- command,
- competence,
- compromise,
- containment,
- control,
- coordination,
- craft,
- craftsmanship,
- cunning,
- deftness,
- detente,
- deterrence,
- dexterity,
- dexterousness,
- dextrousness,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatics,
- discretion,
- dollar diplomacy,
- dollar imperialism,
- efficiency,
- expansionism,
- expertise,
- facility,
- finesse,
- foreign affairs,
- foreign policy,
- good-neighbor policy,
- grace,
- grip,
- handiness,
- horsemanship,
- imperialism,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- internationalism,
- intrigue,
- isolationism,
- jobbery,
- jobbing,
- know-how,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manifest destiny,
- marksmanship,
- mastership,
- mastery,
- militarism,
- nationalism,
- negotiation,
- neocolonialism,
- neutralism,
- nonresistance,
- open door,
- open-door policy,
- peace offensive,
- peaceful coexistence,
- poise,
- politics,
- practical ability,
- preparedness,
- proficiency,
- prowess,
- quickness,
- readiness,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- savoir faire,
- savoir-faire,
- savvy,
- seamanship,
- shirt-sleeve diplomacy,
- shuttle diplomacy,
- skill,
- skillfulness,
- spheres of influence,
- statecraft,
- statesmanship,
- style,
- tact,
- tactfulness,
- technical brilliance,
- technical mastery,
- technical skill,
- technique,
- the big stick,
- timing,
- tough policy,
- virtuosity,
- wit,
- wizardry,
- workmanship,
- world politics
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- acuteness,
- allure,
- ambidexterity,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- beguile,
- bestow,
- bewitch,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- captivate,
- catch,
- charm,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- consecrate to,
- conspiracy,
- consume,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- dedicate to,
- design,
- device,
- devote,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- draw,
- duplicity,
- employ,
- enchant,
- expedient,
- expend,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fascinate,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- fleet,
- foxiness,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- give over to,
- give to,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- improbity,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- magnetize,
- maneuver,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- pass,
- plot,
- ploy,
- put in,
- racket,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resourcefulness,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- scurvy trick,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- spend,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- take,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- two-facedness,
- use up,
- wariness,
- while,
- while away,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wit
- Machiavellianism,
- Prospero,
- Punic faith,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- affectation,
- airiness,
- ambidexterity,
- apostasy,
- appearance,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- bad faith,
- bamboozlement,
- barratry,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- breach of faith,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- calculated deception,
- cant,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereliction,
- desertion,
- deviancy,
- disaffection,
- dishonesty,
- disloyalty,
- distortion,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- dupery,
- duplicity,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- faithlessness,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false appearance,
- false light,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fickleness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- furtiveness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- immateriality,
- improbity,
- inconstancy,
- indirection,
- infidelity,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- kidding,
- low cunning,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mala fides,
- mealymouthedness,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- peccancy,
- perfidiousness,
- perfidy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- prestidigitation,
- putting on,
- recreancy,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- self-righteousness,
- semblance,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sleight of hand,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- song and dance,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- surreptitiousness,
- swindling,
- tergiversation,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trothlessness,
- two-facedness,
- unactuality,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unfaith,
- unfaithfulness,
- unloyalty,
- unorthodoxy,
- unreality,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsubstantiality,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- victimization,
- vision,
- wile,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- Gongorism,
- Italian hand,
- Machiavellianism,
- action,
- acuteness,
- ad hoc measure,
- adeptness,
- adroitness,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- ambidexterity,
- answer,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- astuteness,
- bad faith,
- bag of tricks,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- cabal,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- catch,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- cleverness,
- collusion,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivery,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- counterplot,
- coup,
- course of action,
- covin,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- deep-laid plot,
- demarche,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dishonesty,
- dissimulation,
- dodge,
- dodgery,
- double-dealing,
- doubleness,
- doubleness of heart,
- duplicity,
- effort,
- engineering,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- expedient,
- faithlessness,
- fakement,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- finagling,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foul play,
- foxiness,
- frame-up,
- gambit,
- game,
- gamesmanship,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- guile,
- hocus-pocus,
- hyperelegance,
- improbity,
- improvisation,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- insidiousness,
- intrigue,
- inventiveness,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- keenness,
- knavery,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- little game,
- low cunning,
- machination,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- manneredness,
- mannerism,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- one-upmanship,
- originality,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- pass,
- pettifoggery,
- pettifogging,
- pis aller,
- plot,
- plotting,
- ploy,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretentiousness,
- proficiency,
- purism,
- quickness,
- racket,
- rascality,
- readiness,
- red herring,
- resort,
- resource,
- resourcefulness,
- rigging,
- ruse,
- satanic cunning,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- scheming,
- scurvy trick,
- shake-up,
- sharp practice,
- sharpness,
- shift,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- skill,
- skulduggery,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solution,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- subterfuge,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- supercherie,
- suppleness,
- tactic,
- temporary expedient,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trickiness,
- trump,
- two-facedness,
- underhand dealing,
- underhandedness,
- underplot,
- unnaturalness,
- wariness,
- web of intrigue,
- wile,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wily device,
- wire-pulling,
- wit,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
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