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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

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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

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

Mighty antagonisms reared themselves in their way,—ecclesiastical prejudices, the prejudices of culture, social hostilities, political expediences, and all the subtle and violent contrivances of the world, the flesh and the devil.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry

Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.

From The Acquisitive Society by Tawney, R. H.