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

Speed :: Speed (n.) To be expedient.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Unexpedient :: Unexpedient (a.) Inexpedient.

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..

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

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

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

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..

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