machiavellize

Verb capitalized: Machiavellize

Machiavellize (third-person singular simple present Machiavellizes, present participle Machiavellizing, simple past and past participle Machiavellized)

1. To behave in a Machiavellian manner; to be cunning and manipulative.
   • The boss has the magic of dividing the workers, he 'Machiavellizes. '1983, Geoffrey E. Fox, Organizing the New Immigrants, page 6
   • These were the Machiavellisms that the ancient ages produced for us before Machiavelli was in the world, and an infinity of persons Machiavellize among us today who have never read his books.1992, Peter S. Donaldson, Machiavelli and Mystery of State, page 149
2. To make Machiavellian.
   • Leninism might be defined as the desperate form of Marxism, an attempt to save Marxism by Machiavellizing it, but Marx's own work is in my view also marked by desperation.1987, Eric Bentley, Thinking about the Playwright: Comments from Four Decades
   • We must not only claim that violence is ineluctable because the future is open and "being realized," we must also hold that certain types of violence are more justified than others; we must not only agree that the politician never fails to be a Machiavelli, but show as well that history has its...1991, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Phenomenology, page 130