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Off in the distance, some unseen machinator is feeding him his lines.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2016

Intrigue used both against and by the avenger is another important element; the villain is a machinator and Hieronimo finally accomplishes his revenge by means of dissimulation and trickery.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.

Does it not arise from complicity with England, that machinator of conspiracies against the power and the life of the First Consul?

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

I cannot tell whether that slender, silken machinator, Captain Lake, loitered in the chapel for the purpose of talking to or avoiding Jos.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

"Wasna that a graun' ane?" said the machinator.

From St. Cuthbert's by Knowles, Robert E.