time-serving
adj1
Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
- And the man who had just been engaged in the most time-serving neglect of former, and a most cringing anticipation of new patrons, became forthwith the kind and hospitable host of strangers who had no claim upon him beyond their own isolated situation.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 85:
- Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review: