intriguer
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer."
From Time Magazine Archive
Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.
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 world was also well assured that the favourite was an intriguer.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
