intriguer
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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
More & more power gravitates toward Beria, not merely because he is an ambitious intriguer, but because power brings more power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vain, ambitious, an inveterate intriguer, Thi carefully cultivated the political Buddhists, got his own man installed as head of the national police.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lands now lie the open prey of the hardy claimant or the sly intriguer; crowds of suppliants wearied the crown to participate in that national spoliation.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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