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Recent Examples of manipulative
This behavioral profile becomes a roadmap for either serving your interests—finding genuine savings and filtering out manipulative offers—or exploiting your patterns for maximum extraction.
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Ravi Dhar,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
In Wildwood, Clement voices the role of Roger Swindon, the manipulative right-hand man of South Wood governor Lars Svik.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 June 2026
Apps using manipulative ad behavior often prioritize engagement and data harvesting over user trust and security.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
The idea of using manipulative marketing language to describe something so threatening is insane.
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Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 June 2026
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Ravi Dhar,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
In Wildwood, Clement voices the role of Roger Swindon, the manipulative right-hand man of South Wood governor Lars Svik.
—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 June 2026
Apps using manipulative ad behavior often prioritize engagement and data harvesting over user trust and security.
—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
The idea of using manipulative marketing language to describe something so threatening is insane.
—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for manipulative
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Shadow fleet vessels disguise their identity and purpose through a broad range of deceptive activities, including spoofing their locations and destinations.
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The complaint alleged deceptive advertising and other misconduct.
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Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining.
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The interview was secretly filmed in her apartment at Kensington Palace while she was separated from then-Prince Charles and later revealed to have been secured by deceitful methods.
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Or means that any comments are supposedly hypocritical.
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Earlier this month, Matsui’s campaign came after Vang for taking corporate donations from Sacramento-area businesses during her city council campaigns, implying that Vang’s vows to not accept money from corporate PACs in her congressional bid is hypocritical.
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Perhaps Munro’s most popular role is as Betty’s devious dad, Hal Cooper, on Riverdale.
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Jeremy Strong is very good at playing devious men with very deep pockets.
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That doesn't enable cunning and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people.
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For decades, humans mined antibiotic molecules from microbes and tweaked them to develop new drugs, staying ahead of evolution’s cunning countermeasures.
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Warnock writes that his belief that the crooked places in America will be made straight keeps him motivated even on tough days at the Capitol.
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And ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked.
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Years of unrelenting pressure—smear campaigns, interrogations, arrests, a violent raid, and underhanded attempts at control—had succeeded in breaking it.
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The Knicks won Game 3 Friday night, and are on the verge of sweeping their rivals, which serves Philadelphia right for trying to pull off such an underhanded scheme.
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The show gestures at the classic targets of old-timey sexism, small-mindedness, and nativism—much of it embodied by Gasteyer’s scheming character—but only in the safest possible ways.
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Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, and Chace Crawford catapulted to fame playing the scheming social butterflies flitting around Gossip Girl's Upper East Side.
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“Manipulative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/manipulative. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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