manipulative

The US actress was best known for playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer's younger sister Dawn Summers, and later took on the role of manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl as an adult.

Mohler sneered that empathy is "an artificial virtue," calling empathy "destructive and manipulative."

She said she wants to keep the national tests because “if we don’t, states can ... be a little manipulative with their own results and their own testing.”

He was described in court as "manipulative and predatory", and jurors were told his repeated offending against five victims was "a habit, a lifestyle".

At this point, I don’t think Jaclyn did something that she felt was manipulative or malicious.