schemer

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Emerson credits his Shakespearean training — twice he played Iago, the chatty schemer of “Othello” — for his ability to keep viewers on edge.

From New York Times

A lowly servant girl in 16th-century Spain has a secret: There’s magic in her fingertips, perhaps the kind that anxious kings and other assorted schemers would kill for.

From New York Times

Then there’s the flip side of Trump’s promises of revenge: the rewards and pardons he’ll dispense to convicted Jan. 6 rioters and schemers, cronies in legal peril and, of course, himself.

From Los Angeles Times

As with his deftly empathetic handling of “I, Tonya,” Gillespie captures a hot-topic milieu of desperation and excitement populated by schemers.

From Los Angeles Times

An improved ground game would make Herbert even more dangerous and unlock all of Moore’s trumpeted concoctions, the coordinator with the muted public persona not a screamer but a schemer.

From Los Angeles Times