conniver
Example Sentences
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A New Jersey mobster, an Albuquerque meth kingpin and a couple of suburban Russian spies later won my heart on cable, but it all started with a Stetson-wearing conniver on CBS each Friday night.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
But Lincoln’s bumbling successor, Andrew Johnson, brought the conniver back out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2018
Cagney shines in "Blonde Crazy" as a cynical hotel bellhop, a part-time bootlegger and full-time conniver who feels he is living in "the age of chiselry" and wants to get his while the getting's good.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2016
A psychiatrist with a lucrative pharmaceutical business, he turns out to have been as much a conniver as a connoisseur.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2015
And not because he was a conniver either; I was sure of that.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
