Word: devious
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...Clinton, of course, is a devious, unprincipled, opportunistic, promise-anything, craven, lying, manipulative antiself capable of any treachery in the service of his own ambitions. (They said the same thing about Franklin Roosevelt...
...Heaney and his friends were not so devious...
...Boland (Aidan Quinn), and in the largely antic rivalry that develops between them over the affections of pert Kitty Kiernan (Julia Roberts). It's even there in the characterization of Eamon de Valera, President of the nascent Irish Republic. He's wonderfully played by Alan Rickman as a deeply devious neurasthenic, but he is seen by Jordan as the kind of political sophisticate who has been betraying simplehearted soldiers of rebellion since Errol Flynn (or maybe Douglas Fairbanks...
...Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously psychotic dean at Klump's university (Larry Miller...
...political career. Once a relative hawk who helped launch the very first West Bank settlements in the 1970s, Peres turned into a promoter of peace so dreamy that his about-face was read by some as proof he had no principles. Other voters were repelled by a history of devious political infighting they saw as self-serving manipulation. At home he is tagged a congenital loser, unable to secure a single unambiguous victory for Labor in four previous tries...