intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Mischievous intriguer," "raven," "rascal,"�so Emperor Napoleon called Germaine de Sta�l, who became almost an obsessional hatred.

From Time Magazine Archive

The death of Falerin would fire the Falkins clansmen, and if that dreaded intriguer, Black Pete, showed his face in the hills it was difficult to see how calamitous days could be averted.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville