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intriguer


  • n  a person who devises plots or intrigues

  • Justine, the great intriguer, has grown older and suffered a stroke: a drooping eyelid gives a leering expression to her rouged and overpowdered face.
  • Of those below Zhdanov, his most serious rival is Georgi Malenkov, 44, a brilliant backstairs intriguer.
  • 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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  • Neil Finn in Ninemsn
    At about 2am the Intriguer was first sighted, in the window of a hotel as we were drinking in the bar, just a shadow crossing these curtains,Finn said. "Ever since this mysterious presence has been influencing our lives with mischief and...

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