expedient
Speech parts
1. expedient - Noun
2. expedient - Adjective
3. expedient - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
Means devised in an exigency; shift.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them – or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.