Sentence examples for manipulative means from inspiring English sources

Even the civil service, satirised in the 1980s TV sitcom Yes Minister for exercising devious control by manipulative means, has become more compliant and deferential to ministerial demands.

In simple terms, seeking consent from users in a way that's not fair because it's manipulative means consent is not being freely given.

They look at Taylor's bouncing hair, and decide she is either a dumb blond, or the world's most manipulative mean girl.

In the novel's entertaining climax, Peter is invited on a "retreat" for special students: a manipulative exercise meant to illustrate the evil in us all, a variation of Stanley Milgram's famous experiment with sadism and obedience in the early 1960s.

In order to protect themselves, they lash out and try to power over others by being manipulative and mean.

And in this endeavor, naturally, she uses her own daughter, who she's training to be just as manipulative and mean as she is.

The manipulative therapy (mean = 3.7 sessions) accounts for €270, which explains 43% of the difference in total costs between both groups.

If your partner seems manipulative or mean when you have the discussion, maybe you'd be better off without them.

Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, MD Mean difference, OMT Osteopathic manipulative treatment, SMD Standard mean difference, VAS Visual analogue scale.

I take a perverse and complicated pleasure in listening to all the mean, manipulative things those people say.

This shamelessly manipulative music is meant to win sympathy for Gaines before he becomes Margaret's brutal, if tormented, oppressor.