intriguer
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2013
In a latched compartment of the wagons-lits rode an elderly intriguer, Prince Barbu Stirbey of Rumania, and his elegant daughter, Princess Elise, wife of a British major.
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
Colonel Abu Nuwar was regarded as an ambitious intriguer by Glubb Pasha; he was packed off to Paris as military attache in 1954.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost every crowned, or would-be crowned, head, as he appears on the scene, does so as a mean intriguer, a lying varlet, a wearer of false colors.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
