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[ UK /ɛkspˈiːdi‍əns/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈspidiəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being suited to the end in view
  2. taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

How To Use expedience In A Sentence

  • Extensive efforts (intellectual, spiritual and structural) have been undertaken to establish this continuity and preserve it in light of the changing fabric of the human experience and to ignore these efforts in favor of some revisionist notion of religion as changing out of pure expedience is as cynical as it is ignorant. A Response to a Response
  • 'Well, it is an old and worn argument -- that about the inexpedience of tragedy -- and much may be said on both sides. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • Pursuivant, to the Bishop of Albertstown, to the Lord Chancellor, with an exposition of the wicked injustice and hardness of heart of lawyers, and the inexpedience of taking the poor child from her earliest motherly friend, expressly chosen by her father. Modern Broods
  • Speak up and tell your representatives that now is the time for excellence, not expedience.
  • And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?
  • This must be challenged by all who believe that democracy is more important than expedience, and that Constitutions must be decided by the people.
  • He said the issue needed cool heads but was currently being raised for political expedience, which he condemned as ‘despicable’.
  • I, too, have argued Detroit's business model is hopelessly broken, that its costs were indefensibly high, its brand image tarnished, its culture mired in denial, its management and union leadership too often willing to accept short-term expedience at the expense of long-term success. Detnews.com - Local
  • Regan helped himself with the quip, "I'm not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexpedience. CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2007
  • Moral convictions must out - weigh expedience and buck passing.
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