noun
definition
The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
Examples of opportunism in a Sentence
Among these were to be found the most sordid opportunism and the most heroic self-effacement, the crassest supernaturalism and - the loftiest conceptions of practical morality.
Cynical opportunism often hides the despair.
Before the war, when German Social-Democracy was orthodox, it fought opportunism by the same mild method that Kostrzewa spoke of here.
The practical application of the latter demand has revealed much opportunism.
The diet of Zagreb was allowed to meet, and the Serbo-Croat coalition pursued a policy of pure opportunism, avoiding any pronouncement on matters of high policy, but buying a certain relaxation of regime in Croatia by supporting the Budapest Government and its nominee Skerlecz.
With the ferocious fanaticism or the ruthless opportunism of the future organizers of the Terror they had nothing in common.
The peculiar situation of Sweden, and the circumstances of his time, made his policy necessarily opportunist, but it was an opportunism based on excellent common sense.
This policy was not due to any belief on Henry's part in parliamentary government, but to opportunism, to the circumstance that parliament was willing to do most of the things which Henry desired, while competing authorities, the church and the old nobility, were not.
We must continue to demand socialist policies and oppose opportunism, all the way to the ballot box.
Liu Renjing was also liberated, and bombarded Shanghai and the International Secretariat with letters denouncing the opportunism and the capitulation of Chen Duxiu.
Nevertheless, putting that chameleon-like behavior aside, there was nothing inevitable about such crass opportunism.
This is cynical political opportunism of the worst kind.
The reason for the change of message is political opportunism.
It is pure opportunism, an attempt to gain the support of an increasingly vociferous motoring lobby.
Chester is an historic city, with a unique shopping center and a strong sense or commercial opportunism.
The trouble is, such opportunism only works in the short term.
Opportunism in program is naturally connected with opportunism in program is naturally connected with opportunism in tactics and opportunism in organization.
Weak, self-indulgent, improvident, he had pursued a policy of opportunism to a fatal conclusion.
But he was 10th to execute judgments upon English Puritans, and modern high churchmen complain of his infirmity of purpose, his opportunism and his failure to give Parker adequate assistance in rebuilding the shattered fabric of the English Church.
This policy he continued during the early days of the now consolidated Republic, and gave it the appropriate name of "opportunism."
For example, the SWP became the fattest of the fake ' lefts ' via decades of the most reactionary anti-Soviet opportunism.