intriguer

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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.

From BBC • May 23, 2013

Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung.

From Time Magazine Archive

More & more power gravitates toward Beria, not merely because he is an ambitious intriguer, but because power brings more power.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents."

From Time Magazine Archive

They call you wicked, if to fame you're known, And an intriguer, if you live alone, Trust me, though you were Khizr or Elias, 'Tis best to know none, and of none be known.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar