Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryParty honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. W. Somerset Maugham
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Erwin Rommel
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those. Eric Cantor
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow. Roy Hattersley
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Dürrenmatt