| His response gives an idea of the level of deceptiveness, denial and sheer manipulativeness afflicting mainstream media and politics. |
| Instead, two distinct factors relating to manipulativeness seemed to emerge. |
| Its corniness, manipulativeness, and sentimentality are deployed in a good cause. |
| He will likely sense that you are drawing away from him and escalate his abusiveness and manipulativeness. |
| Duvall, with his mocking irony and slit-eyed stare, is in good form: he has the veiled manipulativeness of a lifetime gambler. |
| It was hard at first to square Richard's manipulativeness with his stupidity until you saw that they were the formula for his success. |
