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

Here he was educated by his mother, Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d'Angoul�me, together with that bright and shining light, that Marguerite who was known as the "Pearl of the Valois," poetess, artist, and court intriguer.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)