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Перевод: machiavellian

[прилагательное]
бессовестный; неразборчивый

Тезаурус:

1. It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality, or immorality - not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles, her secretary William Maitland of Lethington, who was described as "machiavellian".
2. You must not see all this as a Machiavellian plot.
3. It might almost have been planned deliberately by a machiavellian priesthood trained in deep psychological indoctrination techniques.
4. But Mr Major is not so Machiavellian.
5. However, Rock City looked a shadow of the brilliant juvenile who dominated those events when a well-beaten fourth behind the French colt Machiavellian at Longchamp.
6. Its hallmark was a Machiavellian juggling with army cliques, revolving mainly around the role of Idi Amin and Oyite-Ojok as rival claimants to the position of head of the army.
7. In the first category we may mention Kettner's The Development of American Citizenship 1608-;1870 (1978) and more particularly Pocock's influential The Machiavellian Moment (1975).
8. Although Javed Miandad is more popular with most of the Pakistani players than the aloof Imran, they have seldom played so effectively under his machiavellian leadership.
9. The French colt, Machiavellian, now heads the market for the 2,000 Guineas at between 7-1 and 10-1, with Be My Chief, who has twice beaten Balla Cove, disputing second favouritism with Mukddaam at around 12-1.
10. Even the most Machiavellian child cannot be good and bad at the same time
11. This was, it seems, partly with the rather Machiavellian intention of forcing Conservative MPs to unite behind a Prime Minister whose continuance in office was considered best to serve Labour's prospects of victory at the next election.
12. The rhetoric was still aggressively populist but suddenly "hippy social workers" and "machiavellian middle class communists" began to figure alongside "twisted nazis" as the enemy who seek to make moral and political capital out of "authentic" working class youth.
13. The latter gains its incisive bite from a performance by Peter Sellers as the Machiavellian union chief Fred Kite, but too many of the other Boulting films take facile swipes at absent-minded professors or barristers, and ignorant, lazy bureaucrats.