intrigante

Sir Horace calls her the great intrigante, but she is clever and can be very amusing.

"In the first place, there is a little intrigante named Bonacieux."

Others viewed her however as a charlatan, an intrigante and a dangerous witch, or at best a naive figure.

Olympia was, by nature, an intrigante.

Yes, he is besotted with an Austrian intrigante who is hand in glove with French counter intelligence.

Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, herself a former mistress of the king and well-known intrigante, was also implicated in the conspiracy.

Tillie played character parts, the flirtatious old maid or the spiteful INTRIGANTE.

È un inutile stupido intrigante... Dovremmo macellare quella cagna.

(Portuguese) Carlota Joaquina, a Rainha Intrigante; tradução de Gulnara Lobato de Morais Pereira.

Since the death of his youngest son, she had been indefatigable in her attentions, and sanguine in her hopes; the disappointment affected both her interest and her pride, as an INTRIGANTE.

In 1856-57, she was "without rivals", and it was said that she played the part of a "Grande Intrigante" both on and outside of the stage and exerted an influence "which was not without opposition" from her colleagues.

At the time, there were rumours saying that she had been poisoned by the notorious intrigante Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, at the behest of Mariana, the dowager queen, because Marie Louise had not given birth to any children.