intriguer

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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

More & more power gravitates toward Beria, not merely because he is an ambitious intriguer, but because power brings more power.

From Time Magazine Archive

Justine, the great intriguer, has grown older and suffered a stroke: a drooping eyelid gives a leering expression to her rouged and overpowdered face.

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

Let us assume for the moment that the countess is a spy and an intriguer.

From The Weight of the Crown by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)