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as in chameleon
a person who dexterously and expediently changes or adopts opinions a two-faced chancer, he doesn't hesitate to dump people when they are no longer of any use

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as in opportunist
one who does things only for his own benefit and with little regard for right and wrong betrayed by a chancer who, she mistakenly thought, was her friend

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Noun
  • In other words, being a chameleon and adapting to different employees and workplace scenarios can be more effective than having a static set of values and strategies.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • That led me to David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust, and Bowie being a chameleon, and a bit of Chaplin.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Jags are equal opportunists in their one-score adventures.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Such disingenuous opportunists should be shunned and condemned.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s one out-of-the-box name who fits the high-motor description: Tony Vitello, who transformed the University of Tennessee from a bottom-feeder in the Southeastern Conference into perhaps the brashest and most talented program in the country.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Here are some methods for scraping good music from the data wasteland, organized in a hierarchy from bottom-feeder basics to more sophisticated and ultimately, uhh, harebrained strategies.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Thus the self-seekers and the doctrinaires were drawn together into an alliance to maintain the status quo, and all its abuses and inequalities were made sacrosanct.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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“Chancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chancer. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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