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Inexpedient :: Inexpedient (a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another..

Dexterous :: Dexterous (a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..

Afterthought :: Afterthought (n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

Expediential :: Expediential () Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

Disapprobation :: Disapprobation (n.) The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn..

Unexpedient :: Unexpedient (a.) Inexpedient.

Advisable-ness :: Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..

Inventive :: Inventive (a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius..

Expedient :: Expedient (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..

Inexpediently :: Inexpediently (adv.) Not expediently; unfitly.

Impolitic :: Impolitic (a.) Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure..

Expediency :: Expediency (n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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