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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

This is as old as Pythagoras and as new as Bergson and Croce; it assumes that the concept of justice is man-made, produced and to be altered by expediences and practicalities, always in flux.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker

Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.

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

Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Thus we see that these expediences, pretended for the ceremonies, are attained unto as well and better without them than by them.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George