manipulative

How To Use manipulative In A Sentence

• This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
• These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
• Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
• Before a child can learn a musical instrument he or she first needs to acquire the necessary manipulative skills.
• Nancy Dowd's script crackles with wit, while Newman is at his manipulative, womanising best.
• But while it's consistently interesting and hypnotically watchable, its manipulative techniques should remind us what sort of thing a movie is.
• Tabu does full justice to the spirit of Lady Macbeth; scheming, greedy, manipulative, yet not stonehearted enough to drink wine laced with blood.
• For those practising massage, bodywork and manipulative therapies, these somatic dysfunctions are vital to the assessment of musculoskeletal integrity.
• But the sort of lying implied when you speak of manipulative people is something I find abhorrent. Times, Sunday Times
• It seemed intelligent but in a sly, manipulative way. Times, Sunday Times