tempter

The experienced tempter warns the imp not to let his subject actually believe in God or satanic powers.

In it, he draws parallels between Jack Nicholson’s character and the devil: “a tempter who draws people into his sphere of influence.”

Somebody was the tempter, the proactive initiator, and it wasn't the colleges.

Then he proceeded to counter Pelosi’s claim that he had “flipped out” and had a “tempter tantrum” at Wednesday’s aborted meeting by insisting he had been calm.

Many of his targets will forever rue the day they agreed to sit down with this shape-shifter, this tempter who brings out their worst side under the camera’s glare.