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[ op-er-too -nist, -tyoo - ] SHOW IPA
/ ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪst, -ˈtyu- / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a person who practices opportunism, or the policy of adapting actions, decisions, etc., to effectiveness regardless of the sacrifice of ethical principles: He is an extreme opportunist and always thinks the ends justify the means.
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Example sentences from the Web for opportunist Kardashian, ever the opportunist , no doubt surveyed the gluteus landscape and wanted in on the cultural “conversation.”
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Ever the shape-shifter and opportunist , he ended his career as a high official in the very empire he had once helped defeat.
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More often, the line between angel and opportunist is blurred.
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I could read that opportunist 's motives as easily as if he had written them down for my instruction.
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He regards Mr. Gladstone as having acted under compulsion, and as being an opportunist .
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For they were the conservatives of their day: between '76 and '89 they had gone the usual way of opportunist radicals.
A Preface to Politics | Walter Lippmann
Montezuma was therefore an opportunist , like Cortes, but there was a vast difference between them.
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Above all, he will be no opportunist guided by the turn of events, yielding to pressure or what may appear necessity.
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British Dictionary definitions for opportunist noun a person who adapts his actions, responses, etc, to take advantage of opportunities, circumstances, etc
adjective taking advantage of opportunities and circumstances in this way
Derived forms of opportunist opportunism , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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