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Hello /lit/, I am searching for a word. It's been bugging me for a long time now.
Someone who isn't gullible, stupid or easily-mislead, but he's advantageous, smart, cunning, and a liar.
Often mentioned on a financial and economical level.
In my country, it is: 'bandoo2', for those who understand.
Help me, /lit/.

>> No.4515401

opportunist?

>> No.4515414

manipulative?

>> No.4515439

>>4515401
>>4515414
A mix of both, really.
He's an opportunist, and he could be a manipulator or at least holding a manipulator's malevolence.
I still can't find it, but I'm also not sure if it exists.

>> No.4515454

conniver?

>> No.4515486

loan-shark

>> No.4515494
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4515494

< perfectly describes this guy

>> No.4515506

Swindler

>> No.4515509

Jewish.

>> No.4515544

>>4515454
He does connive
>>4515486
He is willing to become thus for the money.
>>4515506
He's the type of person who can be a swindler and most-probably is, but it't not a part of the definition.
>>4515509
I understand your approach, but it doesn't cover all the aspects of the bandoo2 or manyak.

The problem is that the word conveys all these words and their meaning without ignoring any aspect of it.

>> No.4515549

Shrewd

>> No.4515558

>>4515544
You could explain what your word means

"He was a bandoo2; that is, in the (language) tong, at once (blah blah and blah)"

Sorta a cop out (maybe?) but it works

>> No.4515570

Machiavellian

>> No.4515591

>>4515558
It's really a mix of 'opportunist', 'manipulative', and 'shrewd'.
A conartist without being nessesarily, by definition, illegal.
A mentalist without being, you know, a mentalist.
>>4515570
This is the closest thing so far as it convey all the necessary traits.

>> No.4515627

unscrupulous?

>> No.4515640

Hustler.

>> No.4515685

a lawyer

>> No.4515727

Exploitative

>> No.4515744

Shrewd? Wily? Unscrupulous?

>> No.4515762

happy

>> No.4515814

Machiavellianesque.

>> No.4515829

Kafkaesque?

>> No.4515831

savvy
perfidious
wily
douchey

>> No.4515845

>>OP 4515389

Microsoftian, dictator, Nintendo, pedofinancophile

>> No.4515905
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4515905

Shylock

>> No.4516444

Pyotr Stepanovitchesque?
Possessing the subtlety of a serpent?

in all seriousness he was pretty naive about Stavrogin's condition, but only because he was so busy

>> No.4516480

>>4515389
I know exactly what you mean, and in Romanian I'd say șmecher, but in English I can't think of any way to say it without resorting to figurative language--'shark' springs immediately to mind.

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4517338

>>4516444
>Demons/Possessed reference
yess

>> No.4517356

Jew

>> No.4517369

>>4516444
*trips fourdora*