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
Young Vladimir was deeply influenced by the Russian revolutionary tradition stemming from the anarchists, by the peasant-dreamer Tkachev, and by the demonic intriguer Nechaev.
From Time Magazine Archive
Justine, the great intriguer, has grown older and suffered a stroke: a drooping eyelid gives a leering expression to her rouged and overpowdered face.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carter had been, like Rodman himself, the intriguer, but he had always been trustworthy with his friends.
From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville
