Synonyms:
expedient
Meaning: serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
expedient
Meaning: a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Usage examples
I hold it to be clearly expedient
Nor even, if it comes to that, as a passing expedient.
Across the middle of it a single sentence had been formed by the expedient of pasting printed words upon it.
I need hardly say that I should not have written as I now write, had you not found it expedient to do as you have done.
When he had reached the age of twenty, it was thought expedient for him to marry; and the portraits of various princesses were submitted to him.
Our case appeared pretty nearly desperate; but a seaman never gives up "whilst there is a shot in the locker," or a fresh expedient to be tried.
And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.
The Susquehanna, a narrow though rapid stream at its source, was much filled with "flood wood," or fallen trees; and the troops adopted a novel expedient to facilitate their passage.
It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from Mrs. Smith--and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.
From this secret conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the European cabinets is suspicious in itself.