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He has been an opportunist rather than a dealer in general ideas.
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Nine minutes into the second half Fortune pounced for an opportunist score.
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It was needless, opportunist theft and violence -nothing more, nothing less.
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Brilliant opportunist and decisive decision-maker, he realised his value and quickly consolidated.
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In politics an opportunist, opposing and supporting Catholic Emancipation and Free Trade.
Usage of self-seeker in inglés
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This is not the conduct of the charlatan, not of the self-seeker.
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Geoffrey was not a truly ambitious man; he was no mere self-seeker.
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The method that this ancient Jewish self-seeker adopted is rude and unskilful.
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He has now become a by-word as a hypocrite and a merciless self-seeker.
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I will brand you false, a self-seeker, a pretender, a charlatan, a trickster, a rogue.
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Good ground, even though he was wedded to external life; a self-seeker; a lover of the world?
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He was in no sense a self-seeker.
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The great man cannot be a self-seeker.
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Most men recognized that he was nothing but a self-seeker, and there were few who trusted him.
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Let me but leave the good name to my three daughters, and that is enough for me; I am not a self-seeker.
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A halo of false romance and glory, however, surrounds this crusade, mainly by reason of the associations connecting it with the self-seeker Richard.
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Or are you a too-easy, too-facile man-pleaser and self-seeker, being all things to all men that you may make use of all men?
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The Duke of Argyll, soldier, statesman, orator, shrewd self-seeker, represented the Whigs of Scotland; the honest, proud, pompous Duke of Somerset those of England.
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Montcalm, whatever may have been his shortcomings in some respects, was no self-seeker, and was very properly disgusted with the mal-administration which everywhere prevailed.
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He should have remembered the ancient bitter rancour; should have recognized, in the amity of later times, the amity of the self-seeker, and mistrusted it.
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Burleigh, who misjudged him as a dreamer and self-seeker, not only refused to help him at the court but successfully opposed his advancement by Elizabeth.