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

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

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 (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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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