intriguer

1 intriguer in the PCSO', adding that it was Cam 'who fed a Palace official the lie that Balutan had accepted bribe money.'

In his narrative, McMeekin begins with the intriguer Rasputin, who, it turns out, was wise enough to warn the hapless Nicholas II not to enter the Great War, and continues with Mikhail Rodzianko and Alexander Guchkov, who conspired with the military to drive the emperor to abdicate.

"Nagpa-pabango," as the Tagalog intriguer is labelled.

This was, after all, an era of puppet emperors when every court intriguer and partisan invariably met a brutal end at the hands of rival factions.

Museveni is also known for being a calculating intriguer. For peace to come to South Sudan, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), African Union (AU), Troika countries, and the international community must confront the Ugandan leader and tell him to stop his destructive policy on South Sudan.

a Man ambitious as Julius Caesar, a subtle intriguer. His abilities would make him Dangerous if he was to espouse a wrong side.

If Stalin was a gifted actor, he was also an intriguer par excellence.

Regarding his character, he is an intriguer, jabberer, and demagogue; [he places] his well-being above all; he falls easily under the influence of other foreign students.

But Nazimuddin was not an intriguer. On 17 April 1953 he was summoned by the Governor General along his cabinet and ordered to resign.

Knott and Williams show that Washington was no empty vessel being filled by some upstart intriguer; this was a transparent and rational partnership fueled by mutual respect.