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Adjective(1) taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit(2) taking immediate advantage(3) often unethically(4) of any circumstance of possible benefit

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(1) In advanced HIV infection, the presence of many opportunistic infections affecting the lungs may cause difficulties in the diagnosis of TB.(2) Given the uncertainties that envelope them, one cannot blame them for being servile, opportunistic and selfish.(3) I am proud to say that this Government's position is based on environmental integrity, whereas the Opposition's position is opportunistic , and inconsistent with its earlier stance.(4) I think he took an opportunistic political move in the area.(5) It would be even more disturbing should it emerge that the approach is an opportunistic one, seeking merely to plunder industry without regard to the wider implications.(6) I personally was encouraged from an early age to regard your country as opportunistic at minimum, greedy at best, and the worst bully in the playground at worst.(7) They are just so politically opportunistic that they are willing to put their short-term partisan interest ahead of the long-term national interest.(8) Moreover, differential diagnosis to exclude opportunistic infections is difficult, due to relatively similar clinical and laboratory presentations.(9) Can this deep division, composed as it is of moral, political, strategic, tactical and opportunistic elements, be bridged?(10) These factors increase parents' vulnerability to opportunistic exploitation and raise their overall transaction costs with unfavourable implications for value creation.(11) In the movie, a political satire, Beatty plays an opportunistic Democrat who starts being brutally honest on the stump, eventually even talking in rap and wearing the oversized clothes of a hip-hop kid.(12) Political ideologies are quite often opportunistic with respect to institutional questions.(13) The drafters viewed power politics, and the opportunistic use of Security Council vetoes, as an obstacle to individual accountability under international human rights law.(14) These disruptions have allowed opportunistic creatures to move in.(15) We are rapidly becoming a tawdry, mean, opportunistic and expedient culture, which I suppose reflects our political leadership on both sides.(16) The majority of species are opportunistic , preying upon anything they can overpower that comes within striking distance.
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(1) opportunistic infection
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Adjective
1. opportunist
2. timeserving


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