opportunistic

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The world simply has too many opportunistic and money hungry crackpots.

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

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adjective

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

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adjective

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

Example sentences

The world simply has too many opportunistic and money hungry crackpots.

I wish it was the idiots on Twitter who were getting fired - both the threatening jerky men as well as the opportunistic feminist ones.

My comment here will sound emotionally tone deaf and heartlessly opportunistic.

If there's ever a right time to refrain from marketing yourself, it's when you're accusing someone else of being an opportunistic sociopath.

Much more likely, in my view, is that the case becomes a testament to what happens when a party makes a high-stakes opportunistic legal grab that goes badly awry.

[...] The politicians in 'House of Cards' [are] morally bankrupt and endlessly opportunistic.

Nevertheless, it is true that Jstor got out of the "hassle Aaron Swartz" game a long time ago, which is why they're able to post a message like this without it coming off as totally opportunistic.

It the opportunistic monitoring as opposed to the targeted monitoring and the activities beyond their jurisdiction.

]PS: Oh yeah, one other thing:Given all we know about web security, having SSL as a value-add makes you look irresponsible at best, and manipulative, opportunistic, unethical, and idiotic at worst.