1. manipulative - Noun
2. manipulative - Adjective
3. manipulative - Adjective Satellite
Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. Andrea Dworkin
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny. Louis C.K.
All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it. Suzanne Collins
He is divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me and the industry. Gary Kildall
The literary James Bond is a creation of prewar London club-land: upper-crust, snobbish, manipulative and cruel in his relationships with women, with a thinly veiled sadomasochistic streak and a coldly ruthless attitude to his opponents that verges on the psychopathic. Charles Stross