Expediency
[ɪk'spiːdɪənsɪ;ek-] or [ɪk'spidɪənsi]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.
(n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
[1]. Fitness, propriety, suitableness, advisability, desirableness.[2]. Advantage, profit, utility.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Utility, advantage, interest
ANT:Inexpediency, disadvantage, inutility, detriment
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Examples
- At the point at which matters had now arrived, I rose superior to all considerations of mere expediency. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed, I do not think it _is_ so very small. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Even as a mere matter of expediency the proceeding was doubtful in the extreme. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yet here too we may observe that what we term expediency is merely the law of right limited by the conditions of human society. Plato. The Republic.
- It substitutes the changing expediency of the moment for devotion to unswerving moral law. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He represented facts in so strong a point of view, that the expediency of the act must have appeared clear to every unprejudiced mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It's merely a matter of expediency, you see, my girls will naturally take the lead, and this table is considered their proper place. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Although the parliament of Great Britain had repealed the stamp-act, it was only upon the principle of expediency. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He was never tired of looking at it, and even held a council with Eva on the expediency of getting it framed, to hang up in his room. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The longer she considered it, the greater was her sense of its expediency. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The expediency I do not doubt; I am not so sure of the possibility. Plato. The Republic.
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