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
He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work."
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
When all was ready in May 1605 Fawkes was despatched to Flanders to acquaint Sir William Stanley, the betrayer of Deventer, and the intriguer Owen with the plot.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
