Manipulative
Manipulative adjective - Skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage.
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Sharp and manipulative are semantically related. in scheming to manipulate topic. In some cases you can use "Sharp" instead an adjective "Manipulative".
Sharp
Sharp adjective - Having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something.
Manipulative and sharp are semantically related. You can use "Manipulative" instead an adjective "Sharp".
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The manipulative and often malevolent personification of Desire from The Sandman is described as having "eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine."
Source: Supernatural Gold Eyes -
Guile Hero: Drake, while being able to handle himself quite well, first and foremost uses his razor-sharp wits and formidable manipulative skills.
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Amity Adora ("Amma") Crellin in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects; charming, childlike, spoiled, vicious, manipulative, morbid, sexually precocious, and, incidentally, a triple murderer by the age of thirteen.
Source: Enfant Terrible
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