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[ adjective ] taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
Synonyms Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)Essentially this imposed two conditions : First , international_law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political_system in which a number of states were competitive , suspicious , and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; second , it had to be compatible with the value_system that they shared . Related terms |
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