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

Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (a.) Quick; expeditious.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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