intriguer

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intriguer
Noun
  • Co-conspirator 1 has not been charged.
    Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • But the physical being would be transformed, and perhaps the soul, which didn’t go its separate way but was always a co-conspirator with the body.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The show’s version — younger, weaker, more emotional, and much more easily swayed by Skellen, an obvious schemer — isn’t nearly as compelling.
    Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even when convicted or exiled, coup plotters may be later freed.
    Joe Wright, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Though ultimately abandoned, the plotters went so far as to begin tracking Moraes’s movements, according to the New York Times.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When an anarchist frames one of them for treason, another is determined to track down a traitor.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The competition show takes place in Scotland and has cast members divided into two groups, traitors and faithfuls, and the faithfuls try to vote off the traitors to win a cash prize.
    Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump last week directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to request the release of grand jury testimonies from Epstein and his coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
    Amalia Huot-Marchand, The Hill, 25 July 2025
  • Hecker’s questions probed the extent of Joseph’s diligence when conducting interviews of the coconspirators.
    Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • President Abraham Lincoln called on state militias at the outset of the Civil War to help in fighting Confederate turncoats to the South.
    Alana Wise, NPR, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The turncoats are John Hannah, Biggie Munn, Bo Schembechler and Burt Smith.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 July 2025
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“Intriguer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intriguer. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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