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Synonyms for opportunism
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : op-er-too-niz-uh m, -tyoo- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɒp ərˈtu nɪz əm, -ˈtyu- |
Définition of opportunism
Origin :- "policy of adopting actions to circumstances while holding goals unchanged," 1870, from opportune + -ism. Cf. opportunist.
- noun expediency
- I have scorned this opportunism all my life, and now I regret having scorned it.
- Extract from : « The Daughters of Danaus » by Mona Caird
- That there may be no opportunism every citizen must be alive to the morality of politics.
- Extract from : « Judges and Ruth » by Robert A. Watson
- No member of my family would ever be guilty of opportunism, and remain in my family.
- Extract from : « Angelot » by Eleanor Price
- For that is just what opportunism wants—to keep these two questions in abeyance.
- Extract from : « Anarchism and Socialism » by George Plechanoff
- Is not this the opportunism of both a Browning and a Gladstone?
- Extract from : « Browning and His Century » by Helen Archibald Clarke
- He wanted advice, he wanted to be confirmed in his own opportunism, as a starving beggar may want food.
- Extract from : « The Price of Love » by Arnold Bennett
- Compared with his high stand for the right, the opportunism of such a man as Clay shrivels into nothingness.
- Extract from : « A Social History of The American Negro » by Benjamin Brawley
- Opportunism, rationalized by one or another ornamental philosophy, has been very common in modern China.
- Extract from : « Government in Republican China » by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
- Opportunism has been characterized by the avid acceptance of wholly implausible doctrines, or by a disingenuous "realism."
- Extract from : « Government in Republican China » by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
- But unless they are realized in a high degree, wage settlement will continue to be a matter of force and opportunism.
- Extract from : « The Settlement of Wage Disputes » by Herbert Feis
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