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manipulative

[muh-nip-yuh-ley-tiv, -yuh-luh-tiv]

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adjective

influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.

of or pertaining to manipulation of objects or parts of the body; serving to manipulate: spinal manipulative therapy.

noun

Usually, manipulatives. any of various objects or materials that students can touch and move around in order to help them learn mathematical and other concepts: the use of blocks, flashcards, and other manipulatives in the classroom.

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Manipulative has a plethora of syllables.

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a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.

a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.

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ma·nip·u·la·tive·ly, adverb

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Tate separately, testified at the hearing that he had been manipulative and uncooperative.

She is a jealous and manipulative person who really controls everything he does.

The boy is intelligent, manipulative and inclined to set light to things.

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Tate separately, testified at the hearing that he had been manipulative and uncooperative.

She is a jealous and manipulative person who really controls everything he does.

The boy is intelligent, manipulative and inclined to set light to things.

They have subtle tendencies to be sneaky, plotting and manipulative at times.

Instead they're using underhanded, disrespectful, and manipulative means.

IN any given high school, you've got your smart students, your rich students and your egocentrically manipulative students.

It also indicates that you will be manipulative once hired.

His manipulative measures only put off the inevitable.

Even obviously manipulative compliments are remarkably effective.

Learning is hands on, making wide use of manipulative materials and done in mixed-age groupings of four or five children.

Academe is full of petty, jealous, manipulative people.

The depiction of the media as an amoral, manipulative power is also well-worn.

To withhold facts from our youth is manipulative and verges on dishonesty.

And then, with complete disregard for his manipulative tendencies, amazingly re-elect him.

Women had to get by in life by being seductive or subtly manipulative.

His negative ads were more numerous, more manipulative and sometimes flagrantly dishonest.

They represent a manipulative and multibillion-dollar fashion industry.

But if officials came to depend on him, they also learnt that he could be devious, ruthless and manipulative.

Bigoted on race and manipulative in his handling of the club, he is not an attractive figure.

On the other hand, populist appeals can be manipulative and demagogic.

However his manipulative skills will be put to good use trying desperately to convince you otherwise.

They wanted it so they would have some manipulative ability to avoid the teeth of the law.

It's proved to be dishonest, manipulative newspaper.

However unwittingly they are only revealing their manipulative and propagandist mind-set.

American television in general is as superficial as it is misleading and manipulative.

Manipulative partnering proliferates, but the work also repeatedly introduces men who watch this coupling as if excluded by it.

Yes, this is a highly manipulative and game-playing approach to the student surveys.

Lurid sensationalism and computer gamesmanship left this filmmaker's earlier work looking hollow and manipulative.

Of course, this research could also be used to refine manipulative marketing methods:.

Constantino condemns humanity's frivolous inhumanity to animals in visceral but manipulative terms.

It could be that your would-be friends are actually manipulative jerks who want to profit from the social circle.

When a manipulative businesswoman is murdered, her valuable anti-aging cosmetics formula is stolen.

Both offer a study in manipulative control between a boxer and his trainer.

Her manipulative father is well aware of the king's instability and is hoping that eventually he will have all the power.

They condemned him as a vicious killer, a coward and a manipulative monster.

Kenovic has grafted a story onto the setting that is so aggressively sentimental and manipulative it backfires.

But, many others say, he was more often reclusive and manipulative and sometimes abusive to those close.

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World English Dictionary

manipulate (məˈnɪpjʊˌleɪt)

—vb
1.	(tr) to handle or use, esp with some skill, in a process or action: to manipulate a pair of scissors
2.	to negotiate, control, or influence (something or someone) cleverly, skilfully, or deviously
3.	to falsify (a bill, accounts, etc) for one's own advantage
4.	(in physiotherapy) to examine or treat manually, as in loosening a joint

[C19: back formation from manipulation, from Latin manipulus handful]

manipulability

—n

ma'nipulatable

—*adj*

ma'nipulable

—*adj*

manipu'lation

—n

ma'nipulative

—*adj*

ma'nipulatively

—*adv*

ma'nipulator

—n

ma'nipulatory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

manipulative

1836, from manipulate + -ive.

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