intrigant

or in·tri·guant

[ in-tri-guhnt; French an-tree-gahn ]

noun

, plural in·tri·gants [in, -tri-g, uh, nts, a, n, -t, r, ee-, gahn].

1. a person who engages in intrigue or intrigues.

intrigant

/ ɛ̃triɡɑ̃; ˈɪntrɪɡənt /

noun

1. archaic.
   a person who intrigues; intriguer

Word History and Origins

Origin of intrigant¹

1775–85; < French < Italian intrigante, present participle of intrigare to intrigue

Example Sentences

Salieri was typecast as a foreign interloper, an Italian intrigant—a pattern already visible in Leopold Mozart’s letters to his son.

From The New Yorker

General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because of the Chancellor-General's reputation as the Fatherland's master intrigant, Germans gave him credit for the next dramatic development�a split in the Fascist Party.

From Time Magazine Archive