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expedient
adjective as in worthwhile, appropriate
noun as in resource
Strongest match
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
It’s also expedient and facile, sparing the party from looking inward and doing the truly hard work it faces.
Council officers considered whether enforcement action should have been taken, but recommended "it would not be expedient for the council to take any formal enforcement action against the event organiser", calling the breach "minor".
When we reach the third point, I believe the purest definition of a cult starts to fall apart, and it becomes another culturally expedient term used to describe our complex political moment.
Stanton is a bit of an elitist; Anthony actually comes from a more reformist, anti-slavery tradition, but she still makes those expedient compromises, which I think costs the suffrage movement.
For school populations still processing the traumas of the deadly Palisades fire, an expedient return to classrooms has been important.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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