Machiavellic, a.
(ˌmækɪəˈvɛlɪk)
Also -velic.
[formed as prec. adj. + -ic.]
Machiavellian.
| 1838 Blackw. Mag. XLIII. 510 The Whigs indeed had concocted their schemes beforehand with all the Machiavelic forecast of veterans in the art of creating family broils. 1879 Farrar St. Paul (1883) 350 The astute and machiavellic policy of Rome. |