Manipulative
Manipulative adjective - Skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage.
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Synonyms for Manipulative
Simple is an antonym for manipulative.
Simple
Simple adjective - Free from any intent to deceive or impress others.
Usage example: growing up in simple innocence
Manipulative is an antonym for simple.
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It has surveillance everywhere, and uses every manipulative trick in the book, from simple blackmail to brokering deals with demons to controlling the Internet, to reach its goals.
Source: Video Game / The Secret World - The murderer X in Agatha Christie's Curtain is very good at this, manages to manipulate people using seeming simple but manipulative comments, gesture and words, to provokes his target to murder their source of hatred.
Source: Break Them by Talking - To solve his cases (even the simple ones), he relies on a real Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Victorique, an arrogant, manipulative, rolling-around-on-the-floor-to-express-boredom girl who is, unlike Grevil, genuinely very good at deciphering mysteries.
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