intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

How Baldwin hoped to lift his own popularity by dumping the extremely popular King, the Beaver, who himself was a compulsive intriguer, never quite made clear.

From Time Magazine Archive

More & more power gravitates toward Beria, not merely because he is an ambitious intriguer, but because power brings more power.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I do not wish to affront you, nor yet the intriguer whom you call your friend; I am ready to take all the blame on my own shoulders.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo