intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

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

"Mischievous intriguer," "raven," "rascal,"�so Emperor Napoleon called Germaine de Sta�l, who became almost an obsessional hatred.

From Time Magazine Archive

So have two old cronies, Federal Judge Homer Thornberry, whom Johnson unsuccessfully nominated for the Supreme Court last year, and Frank Erwin, a longtime intriguer in Texas Democratic politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not remember to have heard Gen. Cameron's opinion of Penn. Weed was here and saw us, but he showed no signs whatever of the intriguer.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace