Opportunist in a sentence as a noun

The for profit prison lobby is opportunist: taking advantage of the policy.

And there we are. At another logical level, a "genius" confronted with some given problem might say "what do these things have in common" yes but a moron, an opportunist and a lazy thinker might do the same.

Anyway, it is not an original idea to claim that Gandhi was a puppet of the British Government, an opportunist, etc.

Not to mention a number of criminal or opportunist organizations.

But doing what's best for your family, and a need to not feel like you're taking a step backwards, are powerful human emotions that can help you from looking like a craven opportunist.

Opportunist in a sentence as an adjective

If I buy 20 new xboxes but leave them sealed for resale before Christmas, I'm not really an early adopter, instead i'm just a speculating opportunist, even though I did purchase the consoles the day they were released - the same time the "early adopters" did.

Am I the only one who found this rather ingenious as well as opportunist/enterprising, something that we at HN are supposed to celebrate and encourage, rather we are complaining about some trivialities?A rather sad state of affairs...

In fairness, his justice department made a serious effort to transfer some gitmo people to the US justice system, but there was an opportunist shitstorm over it, and close to no principled liberals/libertarians who stood up and called out the shitstormers.

"If humans were angels there would be no need for government to begin with, and if elected leaders were angels there would be less need for protection of our privacy -- but humans are not angels and we have experience with elected leaders that are partisan, opportunist, short-sighted and, sometimes, even corrupt.

Opportunist definitions

noun

a person who places expediency above principle

See also: self-seeker

adjective

taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit

See also: opportunistic timeserving