- a word derived from intrigue.
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A person who practises expediency in preference to morality; an intriguer or schemer.
From BBC • May 23, 2013
In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China.
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Vain, ambitious, an inveterate intriguer, Thi carefully cultivated the political Buddhists, got his own man installed as head of the national police.
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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.
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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