opportunist
noun
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Synonyms for opportunist
Synonyms
acrobat, chameleon, chancer [British], temporizer, timeserver, trimmer, weathercock
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And aggrievement, particularly the white kind, is where the money’s at, giving the Trumps a fine opportunity to forge a dynasty of opportunists leveraging the fear of a changing world, and the fear of ever being proven wrong, for profit. — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, "Column: The Trumps will indeed be a dynasty that lasts for decades," 28 Aug. 2019 Malicious opportunists can attempt to steal users’ information from public access computers with keystroke loggers or other data filching viruses. — Leeza Garber, WIRED, "Shh! No Hacking the Census in the Library," 22 Aug. 2019 The West is a saga of God and commerce, homesteaders and cowboys, politicians and opportunists, wagon trains and slaughtered natives, grizzlies and coyotes, and mesas, buttes and gorges. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: The American West is dying. Christopher Ketcham’s ‘This Land’ is a rallying cry to save it," 26 July 2019 But his ascent to stardom also made Ortiz, like other multimillionaire athletes in the Caribbean and beyond, a prime target for hustlers, criminals, and opportunists, and vulnerable to random crime. — Bob Hohler, BostonGlobe.com, "Long before the shooting, Big Papi had brushes with people who ‘want something from me’," 20 July 2019 The other Johnson is an opportunist, a shape-shifter who was able to work across party lines as the only Conservative ever to become the mayor of liberal London. — Stephen Paduano, The New Republic, "Which Boris Is Britain Going to Get?," 24 July 2019 Harden dismisses Flores as an opportunist who is trying to make a quick buck Even after two years of suing such a high-profile person as Harden, not much is publicly known about Flores. — Michael Mccann, SI.com, "Analyzing Why James Harden Won Paparazzi Assault Trial," 10 July 2019 Avoid coming across like an opportunist — don’t play your network like a fishing game, but concentrate on creating collaborations that can help both parties. — Venus Australis, refinery29.com, "Your Horoscope This Week," 9 June 2019 Other people hated it, calling Tripp out as an opportunist congratulating himself for basically acting like a decent person. — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, "Robbie Tripp, Curvy Wife Guy, has moved to Arizona: Is he a hero or a villain?," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'opportunist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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