Adjective : He resorted to Machiavellian tactics in order to get ahead.    From Dictionary.com. 

Machiavellianism: Trying to be powerful enough to control destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two Trees] Reference

The winner is a staple of all authentic Anglican Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The most pernicious phrase of the month « Anglican Samizdat] Reference

The Obama administration's budgetary Machiavellianism has backfired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: The IMF Accountability Moment] Reference

SANCHEZ: So, this president is beyond Machiavellianism, beyond politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009] Reference

Even the recent Annapolis Peace Conference seemed tainted with the scent of Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jerusalem International YMCA-the Child Shall be Father to the Man] Reference

SANCHEZ: And Machiavellianism (ph) maybe in the middle of a debate from one side or the other?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2008] Reference

Occam's razor points to incompetence and naiveté as a more likely explanation than benign Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Method to Obama's Madness?] Reference

This paragraph is a paradigm of legal Machiavellianism–and is pretty weak legal reasoning for an academic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the tax power infinite?] Reference

Psychopathy and Machiavellianism showed moderate negative correlations with Big Five Agreeableness rs = -0.39.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Are the Neurotic Anti-Market?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Linking Bill Clinton to the venal Nursultan Nazarbayev could help McCain enough, without any Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: San Francisco's Mayor Gavin Newsom Spills The Beans On Clinton Strategy] Reference

This paragraph is a paradigm of legal Machiavellianism – and is pretty weak legal reasoning for an academic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the tax power infinite?] Reference

"This is Shakespeare revisited by Agatha Christie, a full-blown tragedy with noise, with fury, with Machiavellianism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Machiavellianism of nature, if it be but Machiavellian, seems to exercise a profound attraction for the conventionally rooted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

Yet Gates 'lacks the Machiavellianism that Obama aspires to.    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com - Latest Articles] Reference

This is small-time Machiavellianism, dangerous and shortsighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Journal] Reference

American Machiavellianism: ‘The Grand Strategy’ to take the Mideast.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Machiavellianism: ‘The Grand Strategy’ to take the Mideast | Letter Never Sent] Reference

There is a residue of Machiavellianism amongst the marketers and PR folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRBLOGGER.COM] Reference

The dark triad of personality: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

No one will be safe under the rule of someone who believes in Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Malaysia] Reference

That's just how our system works - part of it is policy, and the other is Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

American Machiavellianism: ‘The Grand Strategy’ to take the Mideast | Letter Never Sent.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Machiavellianism: ‘The Grand Strategy’ to take the Mideast | Letter Never Sent] Reference

There also he studied, afterwards to put in practice, the effete Machiavellianism then in vogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I] Reference

Rahm Emanuel's Machiavellianism, if one can call it that, is a pale, unsuccessful, ineffective version.    From Wordnik.com.  [TPMCafe] Reference

He still enjoys high credibility anyway, even despite previous insinuations of extreme Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of my mind] Reference

What was called "conservatism" was actually reactionary, and it embraced Machiavellianism in Lee Atwater, then Karl Rove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Turks] Reference

It is an intersecting set of three personality traits - Machiavellianism, subclinical narcissism and subclinical psychopathy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

Islamism is Machiavellianism in its purest form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Absurd Report] Reference

This isn't Machiavellianism -- just common sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Thinker] Reference

Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo Gets Trashed By Users] Reference

Machiavellianism: 8 / 10.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

Machiavellianism: 10 / 10.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

Machiavellianism was worthless drivel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Machiavellianism and secretiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference

Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agatha's Husband A Novel] Reference

Xenophon’s Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyropaedia] Reference

Rebecca stepped in, “Epicureanism, Machiavellianism, Marxism, existentialism—”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Hater] Reference

(including callous, impulsive, thrill-seeking, risk-taking behaviour) and Machiavellianism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference