expediences

NOUN

appropriateness; worth

Synonyms

WEAK

advantage advantageousness advisability appositeness aptness benefit convenience desirability effectiveness efficiency fitness helpfulness judiciousness meetness opportunism opportunity order policy practicality pragmatism profitability profitableness properness propitiousness propriety prudence rightness suitability usefulness utilitarianism utility

Antonyms

WEAK

disadvantage inappropriateness

NOUN

resource

Synonyms

WEAK

Band-Aid contrivance design device dodge easy way out gimmick makeshift maneuver means measure method recourse resort scheme shift step stopgap stratagem strategy substitute surrogate tactic trick

Antonyms

WEAK

disadvantage inappropriateness

Example Sentences

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Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?

From Time • Apr. 29, 2013

The soldiers, accustomed, as all Roman soldiers were, to all the expediences and resources of warfare, had prepared planks which were to be run forward on the ladder, in order to construct a firm bridge.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Alas, how, in thy soft-hung Longacre vehicle, of polished leather to the bodily eye, of redtape philosophy, of expediences, clubroom moralities, Parliamentary majorities to the mind's eye, thou beautifully rollest: but knowest thou whitherward?

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry