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Scruple :: Scruple (n.) Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience..

Happy :: Happy (superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen..

Makeshift :: Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

Inconvenient :: Inconvenient (a.) Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

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

Unadvisable :: Unadvisable (a.) Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient.

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..

Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Aftergame :: Aftergame (n.) A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient..

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

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

Inexpediency :: Inexpediency (n.) The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures..

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..

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

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

Facile :: Facile (a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen..

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

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

Expedient :: Expedient (a.) Quick; expeditious.

Expediment :: Expediment (n.) An expedient.

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