NOUN
- someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding
- the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically
How To Use Svengali In A Sentence
- The svengali behind many of the shows is Simon Cowell, who is on the evidence of his own utterances one kind of amortal archetype. The Guardian World News
- As a teenager, she discovered hip-hop, then went to art college and eventually made contact with two pivotal female Svengali figures, Elastica's Justine Frischmann and raunchy MC Peaches, who taught her to use a beatbox.
- On her debut album, "Sparks Fly," she was aided by the likes of Kesha, Avril Lavigne and pop svengali Dr. Luke, but on Sunday she was on her own: She sang one of the evening's sprightliest numbers, "Last Christmas" by George Michael's first band, the '80s duo Wham! 'Christmas in Washington,' warm and fuzzy
