intriguer
Example Sentences
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.
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
Allard, quivering, radiant, found room to pity the outgeneraled and annihilated intriguer.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
