intriguer
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents."
From Time Magazine Archive
He picked for the job of Reich Ambassador to Ankara Franz von Papen, a diplomatic smoothie, an international intriguer whom British Foreign Office wits call the "German specialist for political dirty work."
From Time Magazine Archive
So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer."
From Time Magazine Archive
But, tho always ready to help others, he certainly never gave his aid to any political intriguer.
From Comrade Kropotkin by Victor Robinson
