Expedient is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPEDIENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a means
• a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient but possibly improper or immoral
• something that achieves a particular purpose
• That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
• Means devised in an exigency; shift.
• a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
ADJECTIVE:
• suitable or appropriate
• (of an action) convenient and practical although possibly improper or immoral
• (of an action) suitable or appropriate
• Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.
• Quick; expeditious.
• serving to promote your interest
• appropriate to a purpose; practical
• suitable to the circumstances, appropriate
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance

Words related to EXPEDIENT

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Words that contain EXPEDIENT

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How to use EXPEDIENT in a sentence

• Caiphas was he that gave counsel to the jewes that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
• Had not George been more attentive and affectionate than formerly, the awful expedient might have been resorted to.
• I accomplished the same thing, a few days since, but without recourse to any such romantic expedient.
• He was so strongly impressed with this important truth, that he had been casting about in his mind for some expedient that would answer the purpose.
• Ye should, therefore, think of some expedient to dry up the ocean.
• This, with diet and care, is the only expedient employed to restore the animal to health.
• It is doubted whether it will be expedient to regulate the duty, in either of these ways.
• But even then, there was not room for all his store, so he had hit upon the ingenious expedient of covering a black silk umbrella with the remainder.
• If he thinks it necessary or expedient to prejudice indifferent people against me, he is clearly right to do so.
• But this expedient served rather to involve him in further debts and difficulties.
• At last, Montague proposed an expedient, which satisfied both his brethren and the counsellors.
• A glance at ancient history, however, is sufficient to prove that there is danger in the expedient.
• It is probable that the expedient was forced upon Kossuth, but the art of a skilled orator might have suggested such a device.
• We are teaching morality because it is morality, proved by experience to be expedient, on the whole, for a satisfactory career on the earth.
• What Consul Williams reported was what Aguinaldo considered it expedient to have him believe.
• Even to him it seemed to be expedient to get up and at once to go.
• In his place the King sent out the Marquis de Denonville in 1685 with power to make war on the tribesmen or to respect the peace as he might find expedient upon his arrival.
• He thought it expedient, if he only entered the island, to see into the character of the people, and to gain knowledge of their localities, harbours, and landing-places.
• Dickie used this cruel expedient to prevent a pursuit.
• Your Majesty will order this to be examined, and provide in regard to it as may be most expedient.
• If this expedient also should fail, the evil must be borne with patience.
• Why not quench the fire at its start with water? Alas! there was no water, and this expedient was a hopeless one.
• Under the circumstances, I thought it expedient to remove her also, which I did.

Similar words containing PEDI without suffix ent and without prefix ex

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