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temporizer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun temporizer has 1 sense
- temporizer(n = noun.person) temporiser - someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time; Array is a kind of delayer
Derived form verb temporize1
CIDE DICTIONARY
temporizer, n.
One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. [1913 Webster]
"A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment."
[1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
temporizer
Selfishness
N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.
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