The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it's not necessarily a moral solution.
Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.
Noun
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Adjective
serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
Adjective S.
appropriate to a purpose; practical; "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
a.
Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or
promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances;
conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; --
sometimes contradistinguished from right.
a.
Quick; expeditious.
n.
That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means
to accomplish an end.
n.
Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Expedient
It is expedient for you that I go away.
Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.2.
His marches are expedient to this town.
Expedient
What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind?2.
Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.
That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
Usage Examples
Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
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