Pragmatist

Tom is a pragmatist.

Tom's a pragmatist.

Is Tebboune a pragmatist or an ideologue?

A pragmatist would never plant such a messy tree, but I like its flowers.

I'm not a thief, I am a pragmatist. I need this bread to feed my family.

We cannot trust him not to lie for his own gain: he's an opportunist and a pragmatist.

[S]ome pragmatists (such as William James) took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.

Historians also suggest that Roosevelt was a pragmatist in foreign affairs, in that his policies were determined by practical consequences rather than by any philosophy.