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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
Example sentences (20)
The thing that's important to understand about Putin is he's an opportunist and he's a tactician, not a strategist.
In politics or anything situation, if your called opportunist, it’s a very bad term. It’s not a good complement at all.
Just like his father of yesteryears, Akere Muna is nothing but an uncanny opportunist that is after personal aggrandizement.
Jin Qiu, p. 55 Following the Conference, Mao had Peng removed from his posts, and accused him of being a "right-opportunist".
Four narrators, among them a Socialist and a Nasserite opportunist, represent different political views.
The Liberals, with their then opportunist coalition partner the Greens, rejected this on two occasions.
Beaufre, by contrast an opportunist, saw plans merely a means to an end, without much inherent value.
The report states that, by his contemporaries, Debye was considered an opportunist by some and as a man of highest character by others.
According to Ducoudray Holstein, Bolívar behaved essentially as an opportunist preferring intrigues and secret manipulation to an open fight.
I can make fun of Adam Levine’s nonhuman wail all day, but he’s a brilliant opportunist.
Another opportunist actress trying (extremely lamely) to cash in on the Metoo bandwagon.
George Neumayr, a senior editor at The American Spectator, is author most recently of : Moderate, Opportunist, or the Democrats' Crypto-Socialist?
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.
Yorke, "The Women in Edgar's Life", pp. 147-48 Æthelwold denied that Edward was legitimate, but Yorke considers this "opportunist special pleading".
He needs to get on this shit, or else he's just an opportunist and propagandist.
However, each Blackadder remains a cynical, cowardly opportunist, maintaining and increasing his own status and fortunes, regardless of his surroundings.
This sparked criticism by BJP, which slammed Kumaraswamy on its Twitter handle by calling him an “opportunist” chief minister who would never respect citizens.
Sun 143–144 Barnoun and Yu 87 A popular saying within China once compared Zhou to a budaoweng (a tumbler ), which can imply that he was a political opportunist.
I realised he wasn't an opportunist and decided he was the director.
Irsay is not a malevolent liar or sociopathic opportunist.
Common combinations with opportunist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an opportunist 12×
- opportunist and 6×
- cynical opportunist 3×
- opportunist that 2×
- opportunist who 2×
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