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Recent Examples of manipulative
Logan’s girlfriend, Cassie (Katie Baker), is a manipulative Barbie-doll princess.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
The story of a terminally ill father on a search for a family to adopt his toddler son is profoundly emotional without being manipulative.
—Uberto Pasolini, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
Kyle didn’t mean for the text to be manipulative (according to her), but Dorit saw it as such.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
As early as 1965, automotive companies were already looking at their commercials as something more manipulative.
—Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
The story of a terminally ill father on a search for a family to adopt his toddler son is profoundly emotional without being manipulative.
—Uberto Pasolini, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
Kyle didn’t mean for the text to be manipulative (according to her), but Dorit saw it as such.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
As early as 1965, automotive companies were already looking at their commercials as something more manipulative.
—Drew Gerber, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulative
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Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to numerous compounding sellers, and both companies have filed lawsuits against numerous compounding pharmacies, alleging trademark infringement and deceptive marketing.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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Yes, but: Brandi Tuck, executive director of the nonprofit Path Home, has been working with homeless families for nearly two decades and says those numbers are likely deceptive undercounts.Kale Williams, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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Over time, guile took on the connotation of deceitful cunning in English, emerging in Middle English around the 12th century.Erik Kain, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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Regarding annual plan pricing, NordVPN is facing a $100M class-action lawsuit in the US states of California and North Carolina over allegedly deceitful price increases that trigger once annual and two-year subscriptions renew.PCMAG, PCMAG, 2 Nov. 2024
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And to sit up there, man, and to be just blatantly hypocritical is funny and sickening at the same time.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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If an organization’s culture is aspirational rather than lived and practiced, the result is often a hypocritical, inauthentic hiring experience.Lori Landrum, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The scammers were devious, said Tom Galvin, executive director of Digital Citizens Alliance.Bob Woods, CNBC, 8 Dec. 2024
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Your solution is clever, if a bit devious and indirect.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Dawson plays Maritza Cruz, a high-end celebrity attorney, pulled into a headline-making case involving Fatima, a cunning young waitress who is accused of serial poisoning and murdering 28 people.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
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Since then, Putin has sought instead to rally the public to the defense of a motherland besieged by the perfidious and cunning West.Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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The pardon was a political bombshell that Republicans have used to further President-elect Donald Trump's claims that the Justice Department has been weaponized against him and that the Biden family has been crooked for years.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Caravans of cars traveled from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Virginia and Ohio to clinics here, loading up on pills and prescriptions from crooked doctors selling their prescription pads to anyone with so much as a hangnail.Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
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Close proves to be inspired casting as the underhanded and unrepentant Cath, who shows barely any indication of maternal concern for her sons in a quest to get her hands on the emeralds.Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Oct. 2024
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Given the way that feuds like this are typically booked, Reed should get the first win without any underhanded tactics so that Rollins, the fan favorite, has to overcome the odds to ultimately win the rivalry.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy get revenge on two scheming executives.AJ Willingham, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
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Four young soccer superfans team up to help their idols regain their abilities after a scheming evil scientist steals their talent.Rodney Ho, ajc, 6 Nov. 2022
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“Manipulative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulative. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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