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Opportunist meaning

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

Synonyms of Opportunist

opportunistic timeserving expedient self-seeker selfish person

Using Opportunist

  • The main meaning on this page is: Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
  • Useful related words include: opportunistic, timeserving, expedient, self-seeker.
  • In the example corpus, opportunist often appears in combinations such as: an opportunist, opportunist and, cynical opportunist.

Context around Opportunist

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 8 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Opportunist

  • In this selection, "opportunist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, cynical, moderate, sociopathic, exploiting, actress and challengers stand out and add context to how "opportunist" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a brilliant opportunist and a cynical opportunist. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "opportunist" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with opportunist

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Irsay is not a malevolent liar or sociopathic opportunist. (9 words)

She came off as a cynical opportunist, and she lost. (10 words)

Another opportunist actress trying (extremely lamely) to cash in on the Metoo bandwagon. (13 words)

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. (40 words)

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. (40 words)

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. (39 words)

George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of : Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist? (21 words)

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.

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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.

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Common combinations with opportunist

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "opportunist" in a sentence?
An example: "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." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "opportunist" from authentic English texts.
What does "opportunist" mean?
Opportunist means: Someone who takes advantage of any opportunity to advance their own situation, placing expediency above principle.
What are synonyms of "opportunist"?
Common synonyms of "opportunist" include: opportunistic, timeserving, expedient, self-seeker, selfish person.
How many example sentences with "opportunist" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "opportunist", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.