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
In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apparently the personality of Von Mirbach had also something to do with his assassination, for as an intriguer he was reported to be absolutely without conscience.
