taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
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Opportunist \Op`por*tun"ist\, n. [Cf. F. opportuniste.] One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]
"David Duke is not a Republican," Atwater said. "He's a pretender, a charlatan and a political opportunist who is looking for any organization he can find to try to legitimize his views of racial and religious bigotry and intolerance.
It is where Jesse Jackson's reputation as an opportunist and a self-promoter began.
Last month, Berisford rejected the offer from the baking group, calling it "just an opportunist attempt" to buy Berisford "on the cheap."
Or maybe I was too much an opportunist to be guided by any principles, scientific, political or otherwise.
Mr. Nelson, who backed Sen. Edward Kennedy's challenge to President Jimmy Carter in 1980, is portrayed by Mr. Clinton as a political opportunist.
He was a 100 percent quisling, an opportunist." His statue, obtained by the Vatican collection 200 years ago, is thought to have left Egypt with the Roman Emperor Hadrian early in the second century.
It may well be that he is enough of a political opportunist both to accept the support of the left and adopt a free-market platform.
"The easiest tip that I have in spinnerbait fishing is to be an opportunist," Martin said. "Take the best opportunity.
Greens see him as political opportunist. Antoine Waechter, 44, classic product of 1968 student riots, now heads the Greens and embodies idealistic side of French environmentalism.