Antonyms for opportunistop·por·tunist

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1. opportunist, self-seekeradjective

   a person who places expediency above principle

   Antonyms:
   inexpedient

   Synonyms:
   self-seeker

2. opportunist, opportunistic, timeservingadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   inexpedient

   Synonyms:
   opportunistic, timeserving

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1. strategist

   a person who takes advantage of opportunities as and when they arise, regardless of planning or principle.

   Submitted by rinat on June 13, 2017  

How to use opportunist in a sentence?

1. Jessica Vaughan from the Center:

   We don't want to turn away people who are genuinely in danger but we know from experience that most of the people that are arriving at our border are not in that category. We have to find an effective way to deter frivolous or opportunist asylum-seekers.

2. Ashraf Ghani:

   Opportunist terrorists went among the protestors and set off explosions that killed and wounded a number of our countrymen including security and defense personnel.

3. Matt Fleming:

   He is not a Republican, he is not a Democrat, he is an opportunist, we completely condemn what he says and what he stands for.

4. National Review:

   Trump is a philosophically unmoored political opportunist who would trash the broad conservative ideological consensus within the GOP (Republican Party) in favor of a free-floating populism with strong-man overtones.

5. Rochelle Walensky:

   Looking county by county, there are some unsettling gaps in our coverage, because this virus is an opportunist, we anticipate that the areas of lightest vaccine coverage now might be where the virus strikes next.

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