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

From BBC • May 23, 2013

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

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

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

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