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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; 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..

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..

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