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Opportunist

Opportunist meaning

Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.

Example sentences (20)

But after his latest comments, it’s time that people of all colors see Sanders for what he truly is — an opportunist that would sell out his own people, and family, for a soundbite and more time in the spotlight.

Highlighting how Peter Obi is an opportunist who moved to a “socialist party, after losing the primaries at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP”, Seun stated that Obi is just an internet president whose election starts and ends on social media.

The thing that's important to understand about Putin is he's an opportunist and he's a tactician, not a strategist.

And if the challenger’s criticisms are based on falsehoods, as are many of Biden’s, he is destined to be seen as a cynical opportunist exploiting a national emergency for personal gain.

George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of : Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?

He needs to get on this shit, or else he's just an opportunist and propagandist.

In politics or anything situation, if your called opportunist, it’s a very bad term. It’s not a good complement at all.

Irsay is not a malevolent liar or sociopathic opportunist.

Alan Bullock’s Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) was the first serious life of the German dictator, but it depicted him primarily as an opportunist with no consistent ideas or purposes except the gaining and wielding of power.

Any leader feeling threatened or insecure to cheer, empower and influence his subjects to embrace education is to say the least, a sadist, an opportunist and society’s major enemy.

He is fully prepared to offer himself for service to the masses, he will never be distracted neither will his struggle to reclaim Kogi from failed opportunist and squanderers will be waved aside.

I can make fun of Adam Levine’s nonhuman wail all day, but he’s a brilliant opportunist.

She came off as a cynical opportunist, and she lost.

We fixated on a conspiracy theorist taking the White House, and then we fretted over whether he was a true believer or just a cynical opportunist.

Another opportunist actress trying (extremely lamely) to cash in on the Metoo bandwagon.

Basically, she's an opportunist who has used conservatives' desperate desire for any minority representation to forge a career for herself, and now she's been endorsed by Kanye.

Instead, Democrats here bicker about opportunist challengers, try to split the women's vote, disrespect quality incumbent officeholders and have trouble handling simple candidate petitions.

I realised he wasn't an opportunist and decided he was the director.

Just like his father of yesteryears, Akere Muna is nothing but an uncanny opportunist that is after personal aggrandizement.

The Liberals, with their then opportunist coalition partner the Greens, rejected this on two occasions.