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Timeserving

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time·serv·er also time-serv·er  (tmsûrvr)
n.
One who conforms to the prevailing ways and opinions of one's time or condition for personal advantage; an opportunist.
timeserving adj. & n.
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Adj.1.timeserving - taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
opportunist, opportunistic
expedient - serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"


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At any rate, whatever as coming from the god was imparted to those present seemed to be generally of a complimentary nature: a fact which illustrates the sagacity of Kolory, or else the timeserving disposition of this hardly used deity.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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