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Pronunciation: [ɒpətjˈuːnɪsts] (IPA)

Opportunists are individuals who take advantage of their circumstances to benefit themselves. Some synonyms for this word include exploiter, self-seeker, user, and profiteer. These words are often used to describe individuals who manipulate situations to gain personal advantage at the expense of others. Those who seek personal gain with little regard for others are often called selfish or self-centered. Opportunists are often seen as unscrupulous and sneaky, willing to do anything to advance their own interests. While these traits can lead to success in certain fields, opportunistic behavior can also damage relationships and ultimately lead to personal and professional failure.
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German University theologians may be advanced in higher criticism, but they are opportunists in practical politics.
"German Problems and Personalities"
Charles Sarolea
Malhomme, dirty and cynical, moved among the dregs of the stars preaching religion and fighting the corporations, the opportunists, the phony rebels who wanted nothing for anyone but themselves.
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
The old policy of "Republican concentration" of opportunists and Radicals was given up in favor of a mass formation of the various advanced groups of the Left, including the Socialists.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright

Famous quotes with Opportunists

  • The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
  • When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
    Ralph W. Sockman
  • I believe Bergman, De Sica, and Fellini are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original material written for them.
    Stanley Kubrick
  • The British can sign and find a way to repudiate their signatures. They've done it over and over again. You need to go back to the Treaty Of Limerick. You have Malta and Egypt, for instance. They can always find high moral reasons for such repudiation. They are opportunists. Griffith, however, having given his word, would stick to it whatever the consequences, even though it meant the disaster of a civil war. They knew that.
    Robert Erskine Childers
  • The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway

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