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adjective

manipulative adj.

Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.

Prone to attempt to influence others by devious or subtle psychological means, in order to induce them to do what one wants.

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Etymology of 'Manipulative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manipulative" Quotes from Famous Books

... surpassed by gardeners in England. He lacks of course the excellent botanical knowledge of many English gardeners, and also the peculiar skill displayed by them in grafting and crossing, and in watching the habits of plants. Yet in manipulative labour, especially when superintended by a European, he is, though much slower in execution, almost if not quite equal to gardeners at home." They are excellent and very laborious cultivators, and show much skill in intensive cultivation and the use ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell

... continually in its value in the world of human toil; while intellectual power, virility, and activity, and that culture which leads to the mastery of the inanimate forces of nature, to the invention of machinery, and to that delicate manipulative skill often required in guiding it, becomes ever of greater and greater importance to the race. Already today we tremble on the verge of a discovery, which may come tomorrow or the next day, when, through the attainment ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

Words linked to "Manipulative" : manipulate, artful