intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

"Mischievous intriguer," "raven," "rascal,"�so Emperor Napoleon called Germaine de Sta�l, who became almost an obsessional hatred.

From Time Magazine Archive

So have two old cronies, Federal Judge Homer Thornberry, whom Johnson unsuccessfully nominated for the Supreme Court last year, and Frank Erwin, a longtime intriguer in Texas Democratic politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It must be, then, that from his hiding place that intriguer was inciting a spirit of truculence in the Carrs to which the Gregories were automatically responding.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville