schemer

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She won her first film role in 1963’s “13 Frightened Girls” as a diplomat’s daughter but found greater renown as a backstabbing schemer on the ABC soap “Peyton Place” a few years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Duer was also an inveterate speculator and get-rich-quick schemer: “king of the alley,” as Thomas Jefferson derisively referred External link to Wall Street.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

Mr. Powell radiates such manly American likability that it’s bizarrely out of character for him to play this ruthless schemer, even as an impish chancer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

But Lee’s also a schemer whose griminess is his superpower.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend I'm a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris