"manipulative nature" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to someone's tendency or ability to manipulate or control others for their own gain. Here is an example sentence: "Her manipulative nature made it difficult for others to see through her charming facade."
Ms. Horan explains how Mamah became Key's translator and disciple, only to grow disillusioned by Key's manipulative nature.
And it is so determined to illustrate the manipulative nature of politics that in performance it can drip with irony or light up its contemporary relevance in neon.
The research suggests that informing teenagers about the manipulative nature of the food industry reduces their preference for sugary drinks and snacks.
After asking the judge in the case, Jed S. Rakoff, for clarification of that term, the jurors decided that Mr. Rajaratnam's "manipulative" nature had helped lead Mr. Gupta into the illicit arrangement, Mr. Lepkowski said.
Celeste then demonstrated what she meant by creating an uncomfortable encounter between Will and Peter, a scene that made sense in an abstract way — as an expression of her resentment and her manipulative nature — but was just bizarre on-screen.
Frustrated by what he called the manipulative nature of the televised singing competition, Mr. Della Terza started encouraging readers of a reality television message board five years ago to vote for the contestants they deemed the worst singers.
At the center of the show is Michael Bluth Jason Batemann), the show's straight man, who strives to do the right thing and keep his family together, despite their materialism, selfishness, and manipulative natures.
Identification of causal mechanisms becomes notoriously difficult in most cases due to the non-experimental (non-manipulative) nature of investigations and the fact that only a single realization of the evolutionary process can be observed for a given species in a specific geographical region.
He wanted to abolish sex, thereby equalizing men and ridding society of women's manipulative and bestial natures, and to lock women in concentration camps so they would die out.
You would therefore want them to be able to conceal, maybe even from themselves, the manipulative and possibly mercenary nature of their relationship with clients, and to transform a business transaction into a friendly quid pro quo.
He sought to use cut-ups "to expose the arbitrary nature and manipulative power of all linguistic systems," and connected cut-ups to the theories of the self expounded by Hubbard's Dianetics.
