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machiavellianism
noun
(Ma-chi-a-vel-lian-ism)
the political theory of Machiavelli; especially : the view that politics is amoral and that any means however unscrupulous can justifiably be used in achieving political power
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manichaeism
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mendacity
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realpolitik
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venality
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personalism
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subjectivism
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charlatanry
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insidiousness
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imposture
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egocentrism
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turpitude
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diabolism
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irrationalism
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greed
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jingoism
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technocracy
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corruptness
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roguery
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bureaucratism
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malignity
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ambiguousness
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sophism
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reification
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murderousness
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hegelian dialectic
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epiphenomena
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westernism
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tendentiousness
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flatteries
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morality
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jobbery
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eschewal
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harlotry
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legalism
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credulousness
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vulgarization
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exclusionism
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jacobinism
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dissimulation
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cunningness
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immoderation
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ingratiation
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puerility
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libertinism
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res publica
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sanctimoniousness
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cravenness
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dogmatist
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ethnocentrism
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popularism
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scholasticism
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auteurism
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metaphysic
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bolshevism
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pompousness
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utopian socialism
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reactionism
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subversiveness
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pusillanimity
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royalism
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judeophobia
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shamelessness
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buncombe
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abjection
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ultranationalism
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malthusianism
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pedantry
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bloodthirstiness
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sophistic
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vainglory
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ineffectuality
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ethnocracy
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servility
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instrumentalism
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vacuousness
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baseness
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dilettantism
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loathsomeness
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virtuousness
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moralizing
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theorization
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wishfulness
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brahmanism
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christianism
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mohammedanism
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perverseness
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clownishness
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indifferentism
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revanchism
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disingenuity
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booboisie
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superciliousness
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religio
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supernaturalism
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abstract noun
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millenarianism
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weltanschauung
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heterodoxy
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