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

Young Vladimir was deeply influenced by the Russian revolutionary tradition stemming from the anarchists, by the peasant-dreamer Tkachev, and by the demonic intriguer Nechaev.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a fairly skillful intriguer who deliberately unleashed forces he may no longer be able to control, even if he wanted to.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he was a Franciscan, not a Jesuit, a scholar, not an intriguer; and his name was not Hall, but Davenport.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron