intriguer

Definition of intriguernext

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Noun
  • Travel and shipping records showed that the co-conspirators would facilitate a shipment to Haiti shortly after purchasing a large number of firearms, then would travel to Haiti around the time the shipment was scheduled to arrive in Haiti.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein’s latest collaboration is a spiritual sequel to their 2019 masterpiece, once again putting an undeniably charming schemer through a nightmarish gauntlet of trials and tribulations to chase an impossible dream.
    Anastasia Sanger, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In various shadows of the things that have been, Chris Hoch plays young Ebenezer’s father as an abusive drunk, a schemer who saddled the family with debt.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Africa’s coup wave The case of the Free Officers Movement shows that plotters wait for clear signals that a coup is worth the risk.
    Jonathan Powell, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Turning Stauffenberg, Henning von Tresckow and the other plotters from traitors (a word Trump used for the six senators) to heroes required a huge rethink of war, morality and law, not just in Germany but in the world.
    Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Hemphill spoke alongside former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon, who described being punched in the face, pepper sprayed, and called a traitor by the rioters.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
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
  • What starts as an innocent father/daughter college visit takes a shocking turn when Tony brutally strangles a Mob turncoat.
    Dan Snierson, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Her father joined her in denouncing Trump as a threat to the republic, earning him enmity from fellow Republicans as a turncoat and accolades from even fierce Democrats as democracy's hero.
    Susan Page, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Intriguer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intriguer. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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