intriguer
- 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
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
Asia's second most successful Communist intriguer, Ho Chi Minh. flew into Peking to see the No. 1 in his business, Mao Tse-tung.
From Time Magazine Archive
With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rumour had always spoken of Santiago Calavera as an intriguer.
From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
