entrapper

Amongst all the human monsters who filled the ranks of the government informers in that dark and troubled period, not one appears to merit a deeper measure of infamy than Captain Warnesford Armstrong, the entrapper and betrayer of the Sheareses.

Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

Many are the members of the one sex that are entrapped by the wiles of the other; but it often happens that the entrapper afterwards rues the capture as much as -- or even more than -- the entrapped.

Hints for Lovers 1899

Wrinstone, the knight's prime minister, constable, and entrapper of heretics.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

Fixated lovers (Lolita), solitary rogue-adventurers (Barry Lyndon), grandiose novelists (The Shining), nuclear strategists (Dr. Strangelove), military trainers (Full Metal Jacket), all the way down to the picture-perfect couple whose model of domestic joy is elaborately dismantled in Eyes Wide Shut: they are all there to enact some version of The Control Freak Brought Under Control, the story of the inventor who invents his own doom, the entrapper who maneuvers himself into someone else's trap.

Very Special Effects O'Brien, Geoffrey 2001