intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

He is a fairly skillful intriguer who deliberately unleashed forces he may no longer be able to control, even if he wanted to.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Vain, ambitious, an inveterate intriguer, Thi carefully cultivated the political Buddhists, got his own man installed as head of the national police.

From Time Magazine Archive

Delivered over to a crowd of very exacting favourites who never left him a moment free from domestic complications, Monsieur had, according to the expressive word of his mother, become indisputably an intriguer.

From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede