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

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

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

Ineffectual :: Ineffectual (a.) Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient; weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; an ineffectual expedient..

Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.

Overagitate :: Overagitate (v. t.) To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient.

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

Best :: Best (superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself..

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..

Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

Ineligible :: Ineligible (a.) Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or prefered; not expedient or desirable.

Timesaving :: Timesaving (a.) Saving time; as, a timesaving 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..

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..

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

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