intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

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

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

So was their commander, who promptly changed sides and began issuing statements damning Mobutu as a "colonialist intriguer."

From Time Magazine Archive

To the ordinary student Temple, we imagine, will always appear a selfish and tortuous intriguer, who hoped to utilise his brother-in-law's genius and popularity for practical objects of his own.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose