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serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"

serving to promote your interest; "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"

Quick; expeditious.

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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.

Quick; expeditious.

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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.

Fit; convenient; advisable.

A means; device.

Suitable: advisable.

That which serves to promote: means suitable to an end: contrivance.

EXPEDIENTLY.

EXPEDIENTLY.

Suitable under the circumstances; advantageous; advisable.

That which promotes an end; resource.

Tending to promote; advisable; judicious.

That which promotes; means; contrivance.

Tending to promote an object proposed; serviceable for a purpose; proper under the circumstances; conducive to one's own ends.

Fit or suitable for the purpose; tending to promote some end; proper or necessary under the circumstances.

A contrivance or shift; that which serves to promote or help forward any end or purpose.

n. Suitable means to accomplish an end; — means devised or employed in an exigency; contrivance; resort; resource; substitute; device.

Proper, fit, convenient, suitable; quick, expeditious.

That which helps forward, as means to an end; a shift, means to an end contrived in an exigence.