Expediency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPEDIENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being expedient, also EXPEDIENCE
• the quality of being convenient and practical despite possibly being improper or immoral; convenience
• The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
• Expedition; haste; dispatch.
• An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
• the quality of being suited to the end in view
• the state of being expedient
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being suited to the end in view; suitability, fitness

Words related to EXPEDIENCY

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Words that contain EXPEDIENCY

inexpediency27

How to use EXPEDIENCY in a sentence

• Most governments are based on expediency rather than abstract principles.
• Most of what is false in Mohammedanism is based on expediency.
• Politicians have ever been as unscrupulous as the Jesuits, in adopting expediency rather than eternal right.
• It recommended the consideration of the expediency of the House ordering that Miller should be taken into custody.
• Some doubts about the expediency of the journey suggested themselves to Mrs.
• All considerations of justice, general expediency, and domestic tranquillity call for this.
• There seemed imperative reasons, besides that of political expediency, for putting the ballot in his hands.
• Then comes the common topic by which the expediency or honesty of the action is increased.
• Objection might be made to the proclamation of an offer of the kind, but it would be based on expediency.
• Dignity apart, the young bishop had accurately measured the expediency of the step he was taking in the interest of his future, high-soaring ambition.
• Arch-democratic scruples as to the expediency, economy, or constitutionality of public armed ships were thenceforth utterly disregarded.
• This expedition, though a failure, has often been referred to as proving the expediency of maritime descents.
• The musical sympathies of the aristocracy were entirely Italian, and Mozart had to bow to expediency.
• But if that principle is false, no sane man can doubt the expediency of proving it so.
• Jesuits bottom morality in expediency, Freemasons in regard for the well-being of mankind.
• The conductors of this unfortunate expedition agreed in nothing but the expediency of a speedy retreat from this scene of misery and disgrace.
• This part of the bill has been opposed, both on constitutional grounds and on grounds of expediency.
• I have said nothing on the expediency of abolition, immediate or gradual, or the reasons which ought to weigh with Congress should that question be proposed.
• Of the expediency of the statute, the legislature must be and is the final judge.
• The motion he meant to offer was as reconcileable to political expediency as to national humanity.
• The practical expediency of issuing a decree of prohibition was what lay upon his mind.
• It is your grand opportunity to help build up a new South, not on the shifting sands of policy and expediency, but on the broad basis of equal justice and universal freedom.
• Hence there has never been in my mind any question upon the subject except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances.
• Go! I am lost to you forever! your own cowardice, your own weak worship of expediency, have been your real obstacles.
• With the rise and growth of the press came the expediency of advertising the performances of the theatres in the columns of the newspapers.
• He did not in public urge the delights of New Jerusalem, or the expediency of departure for it.
• Mill during the session of 1866 were the expediency of reducing the National Debt, which he urged on the occasion of Mr.
• Our position to me seems most humiliating, simply that of the politicians, one of expediency not principle.
• The indications of a considerable body of Indians were so strong, that the expediency of an attack at that hour of the day was doubted by Kenton.

Similar words containing PEDIEN without suffix cy and without prefix ex

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