expedience

Examples

• All

• Extending an outstretched hand to these states must ultimately be more than just a matter of expedience or even charity.

  Academic text (2008)

• Artist excellence must not be forfeited for political and fiscal expedience.

  Academic text (1999)

• I was looking for expedience and saying, no, speed it up, speed it up.

• What you said about expedience made a hell of a lot of sense.

  Good Guys Wear Black (1978)

• The post was not written out of political expedience or disingenuousness.

  Blog text (26)

• The still, small voice of justice was never heard above the din of expedience.

  Academic text (1996)

• The Cook County Democratic Party has put partisan expedience above the public interest.

  Blog text (9)

• We must plan my escape, and I'm relying on your expedience and cunning.

  Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)

• You know, your mother's health depends upon your aptitude, the expedience with which you execute your tasks.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Expedience, however, often supersedes discipline when scholars collapse the distinction between text and context.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

E

expediency

vsexpedience

• Formal

14 7.9

A choice to do what is most practical even if it is wrong

is the general idea of convenience even if morally questionable

Antonyms

I

inconvenience

107 4.3

A thing that causes trouble or discomfort

I

impracticality

1 6.8

A situation when something cannot work well in everyday life

I

inexpedience

• Formal

9.9

A lack of useful or wise action to reach a goal

How Expedient

opportunism

8 7.3

expedience

• Formal

4 7.2

practicality

26 3.9

convenience

116 1.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology