opportunist
Example Sentences
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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
Such opportunists will introduce inefficiency into the flow of traffic, and thousands of them—each driver trying to shave a few seconds off his trip—will slow everything down.
Families "can easily be cheated by opportunists", she said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
