intriguer
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC • May 23, 2013
Colonel Abu Nuwar was regarded as an ambitious intriguer by Glubb Pasha; he was packed off to Paris as military attache in 1954.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Apparently the personality of Von Mirbach had also something to do with his assassination, for as an intriguer he was reported to be absolutely without conscience.
