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manipulatedverbpast tense of manipulate to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious meansthe con man would slyly manipulate the emotions of his marks in order to win their sympathy and trust exploited, played (upon) engineered, finagled, jockeyed, maneuveredbeguiled, bluffed, cozened, deceived, deluded, duped, fooled, gulled, hoaxed, hoodwinked, kidded, shanghaied, snowed, took in, trickedintrigued, machinated, plotted, schemedarranged, contrived, devised, finessed, mastermindedcheated, chiseled(or chiselled), conned, defrauded, fleeced, gypped, hustled, swindled to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlyspin doctors manipulating the data to make it seem more favorable to their preferred candidates addressed, contended (with), coped (with), fielded, grappled (with), hacked, handled, managed, maneuvered, negotiated, played, swung, took, treated engineered, finessed, jockeyedbrought off, carried off, carried out, got off, pulledcommanded, directed, guided, steeredcontrolled, micromanaged, ran(also chiefly dialectical run), regulatedreacted (to), responded (to) came to grips with, had a grip on botched, bungled, foozled, fumbled, goofed (up), loused up, messed (up), mishandled, muffed, scamped to plan out usually with subtle skill or caremanipulated the schedule of presidential primaries so that the choice of the party elders would win the nomination contrived, engineered, finagled, finessed, framed, machinated, maneuvered, masterminded, negotiated, wangled arranged, concerted, concluded, hammered out, worked outangled (for), compassed, intrigued, plotted, schemedconnivedbrewed, concocted, cooked (up), hatchedcaptained, commanded, conducted, directed, handled, managed, quarterbacked, ran(also chiefly dialectal run)gerrymandered blew, bobbled, botched, bungled, butchered, flubbed, fumbled, gummed (up), loused up, mangled, messed (up), mishandled, muffed |