Example sentences for: manipulative

How can you use “manipulative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A profile of Susan McDougal says she's manipulative and awful beneath her sweet front.

  • Austin was a brilliant, sharp-tongued, and of course, being a bitch, somewhat manipulative heart surgeon, but instead of enjoying the occasional triumph over her supercilious colleagues, she just had more bad stuff happen to her than maybe anyone else in nighttime soap history.

  • According to Kermode, Smith employs a "laborious accumulation of detail" to back up her diagnosis that the late princess "was unpredictable, egocentric, aggressive, insecure, manipulative, paranoid, possessive, easily bored, uneducated and a habitual liar."

  • In 1975 the National Institutes of Health sponsored a multidisciplinary research conference on status of spinal manipulative therapy [ 27 ] . The orthopedic, osteopathic, and chiropractic representatives reported on the understanding and use of the terminology in each respective profession.

  • Critics call this tear-jerker manipulative and trite, deriding its mandatory sing-along-to-Motown-hits female bonding scene, stiff-upper-lipping by Sarandon, etc.


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