opportunist
Example Sentences
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He’s the Parliament speaker, former mayor, police chief and Revolutionary Guard commander, and consummate opportunist.
It’s early, and the contest will attract upstarts, insurgents and opportunists.
He warned of opportunists and said law enforcement had made an arrest over an “impostor ransom demand.”
She may be a conniving opportunist; she may be an abused and desperate woman simply hoping for a better life.
In “Werckmeister Harmonies,” another opportunist visits another desperate town, this time accompanying a traveling exhibit of a preserved whale.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
