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Machiavelli’s sneering smile

Glossary term

/ˌmæk.i.əˈvel.iz ˈsnɪə.rɪŋ ˈsmaɪl/

The grin under which Squalor imagines the play to have been composed: policy, duplicity and theatrical malice reduced to facial expression.

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From the books (1 passage)

drip-fed with Machiavelli’s sneering smile,

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