intriguer

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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.

From BBC • May 23, 2013

In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China.

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

Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew that Voda Alexandru would have need of an intriguer like himself.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various