intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

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

Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Almost every crowned, or would-be crowned, head, as he appears on the scene, does so as a mean intriguer, a lying varlet, a wearer of false colors.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various