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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "opportunist" in a sentence

    opportunist example sentences

    opportunist


    1. If these opportunist thugs had designs on the village, very few would stand in their way because of their festering arrogance


    2. remarkable worth, when he really was the sort of opportunist who’d thought nothing of casting The Maiden’s Odyssey


    3. Even worse, she may be offended by your outright sales pitch and view you as an opportunist who wants to take advantage of her situation


    4. “Beaton was an opportunist


    5. Only such as they could understand that his switch in allegiance was not that of a turncoat nor even that of an opportunist


    6. Was he just a successful opportunist or was he guided by principle? Both I think


    7. Was Spalding as clever and as cunning as he wanted people to think? Or was he merely an unwittingly inept and short-sighted opportunist motivated by his self-serving interests who was used by someone wanting to keep their identity secret in the land deal? Perhaps whoever that party was really had other motives in getting Spalding involved


    8. ‘This is impossible!’ thought Din before remembering what the American colonel that had been her customer had said once about ‘a young opportunist who was a major general at the age of 29’


    9. I am not alone in Washington, by far, to have doubts about that young opportunist


    10. ‘’A YOUNG OPPORTUNIST, A WOMAN WITH 7,000 YEARS OF LIFE EXPERIENCE? ARE YOU STUPID OR SIMPLY OBTUSE, SECRETARY DULLES? THIS MEETING IS OVER! NOW, GET OUT!’’

    11. That young opportunist needed to be put back in her place


    12. ‘’A young opportunist? She got where she is because she proved her worth in combat in the Pacific, Hoyt! I can’t believe that you could be this petty!’’


    13. Ingrid shook her head in disgust at the thought that Great Britain could be led by such an irresponsible opportunist


    14. But he might be an opportunist and flexible enough to ply his trade in a variety of ways


    15. The man’s an opportunist


    16. opportunist that it would not deserve any comment if it


    17. intimating that he wasdegenerating into a hidebound conservative and opportunist


    18. I believe he is an opportunist, a vile one, but nothing more than that


    19. come upon this type of opportunist before


    20. He is an opportunist and a killer but his money is ready, he said

    21. But even if that had provided further evidence that Faste was an unscrupulous opportunist, he could not bring himself to believe that the man had also been leaking to criminals


    22. A parcel of down-the-town families had moved to the North End under cover of night at the advice of a man who might have been a landlord, or might have been an opportunist


    23. I never found out whether he was a good Samaritan or an opportunist, though my nature favored the former


    24. “Since I've been arrested, he has borrowed money from me! He is a contemptible Bernard and opportunist, and he doesn't believe in God; he took the bishop in!”


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    Synonyms for "opportunist"

    opportunist self-seeker opportunistic timeserving

    "opportunist" definitions

    a person who places expediency above principle


    taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit