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Main Entry:	op·por·tun·ist [op-er-too-nist, -tyoo-]
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Main Entry:	opportunist
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Example Sentences

He is a hustler of sensibility, an opportunist of inspiration.

But his conduct in government has been opportunist and erratic.

The plant is considered a hardy opportunist and, left unchecked will outcompete native shrubs and trees.

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He is a hustler of sensibility, an opportunist of inspiration.

But his conduct in government has been opportunist and erratic.

The plant is considered a hardy opportunist and, left unchecked will outcompete native shrubs and trees.

Chalmers is a nitwit and an opportunist who steals ideas from others.

Even many of his critics see him as a deluded knight-errant rather than as a venal opportunist.

Romney is either another right-wing partisan, or a political opportunist.

Here, to survive our winters, these opportunist birds have adapted.

His girlfriend has been around the block a few times and is a bit of an opportunist.

The price was right and he sold: such are the strengths of the opportunist.

He was an opportunist who was willing to damage the country to support his ambitions.

Discovering how to chip stones to make a tool that would cut flesh was the moment man learned how to be an opportunist.

But it has also unleashed a torrent of criticism from fellow politicians who have called her an opportunist and a hypocrite.

But he was first and foremost a political opportunist.

He is an opportunist who cannot look beyond the short term.

The more opportunist allies the candidates gather and the more campaign funds they raise, the less trustworthy they will seem.

Discovering how to chip stones to make a tool that would cut flesh was the moment man learned to be an opportunist.

And while the ostrich keeps its eyes covered the politically opportunist hyenas circle around.

As a predator, it was an opportunist that did not exclusively rely on meat to survive.

Kerry as an opportunist unfit to lead the nation in wartime.

He was even too tired to turn on the heat and throw some aces at the agile opportunist across the court.

Labrador, who finally takes it, is a skillful opportunist.

He is effective as a vicious opportunist finally thrown into quaking fear by forces he knows he cannot combat.

Krugman is an opportunist with a left-wing political agenda attempting to shape policy.

Dawson as an outside opportunist who courted voters out of ambition.

The danger is that such use of courts and justice procedures could seem highly selective and even opportunist in nature.

Burkle as an opportunist who sought a stealth takeover of the company.

He was an opportunist who happened to stumble onto an idea.

Klein as a tyrant, a political opportunist and a tone-deaf bureaucrat.

Eichmann shows himself to be primarily an opportunist who knew he had to fawn and salute.

In part, too, it's because she's such a cruel journalistic opportunist herself.

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