Sentence examples for emotionally manipulating from inspiring English sources
"emotionally manipulating" is correct and usable in written English
You might use it when describing someone who is using their emotions to exploit or influence someone else. For example: "He often tries to get his way by emotionally manipulating his coworkers."
I am tired of defending myself against the boring, inevitable accusations of flirting with Paul Hollywood, of emotionally manipulating the judges and of somehow surfing into the final on a tidal wave of tears.
Tandoh, who chef Raymond Blanc suggested was too thin to enjoy food, said she was "tired" of defending herself against the "boring, inevitable accusations of flirting with Paul Hollywood, of emotionally manipulating the judges and of somehow surfing into the final on a tidal wave of tears".
It may be simple psychology, but emotionally manipulating people through their religious beliefs is some slippery slope shit.
I will not, repeat not, be emotionally manipulated by you into staying".
Some environmental activists emotionally manipulate parents, making them feel that the ones they love the most, their children, are in danger".
For years, Facebook's strategy has caused regular controversies around user privacy and ethics – blunders that got people exposed, outed and emotionally manipulated along the way.
It's more the case that they simply strap themselves in and allow themselves to be emotionally manipulated to within an inch of their lives for an hour.
The Scrooges among us will be irritated at being emotionally manipulated by a company flogging its wares: especially one that is still to pay its cleaners the living wage.
It is not charming to hear someone who has emotionally manipulated any number of people — not just readers of the blog, but correspondents he deceived and allowed to confide in him over the course of years — to go on about the shallowness of others.
It's based around reality show Everlasting, where the star, sleazy Brit Adam (Freddie Stroma), troubled producer Rachel (Shiri Appleby) and a collection of desperate-for-a-date women get emotionally manipulated by Quinn (Constance Zimmer), the evil showrunner who barks things at her staff like: "You get cash bonuses for nudity, 911 calls and catfights.
In a case like this, where some of the people appear to have been emotionally manipulated and controlled by a dominant individual, the interpersonal dynamics are going to be very messy, and will not be made any clearer by the melodramatic, historically ignorant rhetoric used in recent days.
