Sample sentences for OPPORTUNIST

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Definition

someone who takes advantage of unplanned circumstances — possibly unethically

Her opponents describe her as a self-serving opportunist who will say anything and stab anyone in the back to get what she wants.

opportunist = someone who takes advantage of unplanned circumstances

Her self-centered opportunism has not gone unnoticed.

opportunism = taking personal advantage of unplanned circumstances

... [lawlessness] creates situations when amorality and opportunism start to be considered the norm.
Leon Aron -- The "Mystery" of the Soviet Collapse -- http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.24215/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
Glancing at Prusias, Max saw the king leaning forward and staring hard at the remaining vials—ever the opportunist.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
] MOTHER-JACQUES: Opportunists!
Eugene Ionesco -- The Future Is in Eggs
During the first months, Senator Trueba shared the opportunism of his class.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
He is a contemptible Bernard and opportunist, and he doesn't believe in God; he took the bishop in!"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Young accused Swann of being a traitor to the workers, an opportunist, a collaborator with the police, and an adherentof Trotsky.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
They were all corrupt opportunists.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Opportunists like you shouldn't have them.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
Brothers, this man is a-a-opportunist!
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
Hence the common divorce of opportunism from virtue and the resultant degeneration of human existence.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
A shameful, unscrupulous opportunist!
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Not only was d'Anjou a consummate liar when it counted most and an opportunist of the first rank, but he was extraordinarily resourceful.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
We all detest them, partly for their lack of judgment, mostly because: of their ignorance and toe-curling opportunism.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
This was an organized group of criminal opportunists who were not simply taking what they needed to survive.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
"Opportunist actions" that would provoke Nazi reprisals should be avoided.
Mal Peet -- Tamar
Now she was the subject of many da-zi-bao calling her an opportunist, a black executioner, a corruptor of the young.
Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
But that, at least, lets them be opportunists.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
Oh, what ghoulish opportunism are writers prone to!
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

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