Usage examples for Machiavelian:

• To this practice, which deserved the very phrases which Coke used against the prisoner's dealings, 'devilish and machiavelian policy, ' Raleigh protested again and again that he ought not to be subjected, until Coke lost his temper once more, and cried, 'I thou thee, thou traitor, and I will prove thee the rankest traitor in all England. "Raleigh" – Edmund Gosse

• He could display a candor that seemed only short of indiscretion; and yet, when you left him, you found you had carried away nothing beyond some neatly turned aphorisms and a few very harmless imitations of Machiavelian subtlety. "The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly" – Charles James Lever

• Heaven grant that there machiavelian manoevres may end in failure. "A Heart-Song of To-day" – Annie Gregg Savigny