Words and phrases that have a meaning related to expediency: (125 results)
Antonyms:
inexpedience, inexpediency
Often used in the same context:
expedience, pragmatism, realpolitik, opportunism, expedient, prudence, legalism, practicality, caprice, disinterestedness, statesmanship, triviality, majoritarianism, arbitrariness, utilitarianism, partisanship, imperatives, pusillanimity, decisiveness, obstinacy, judiciousness, cowardice, altruism, rectitude, subservience, subjectivism, necessity, rationality, unwisdom, morality, principle, egotism, hubris, posturing, fixity, selfishness, politesse, cravenness, tactfulness, sophism, parochialism, greed, indirectness, machiavellianism, venality, exigencies, anthropocentrism, sectionalism, deontology, grandiloquence, avarice, pedantry, agreeability, jingoism, reasonability, considerations, haste, idealism, constructiveness, concreteness, insincerity, absolutism, constitutionalism, ukase, populism, mendacity, incorruptibility, stubbornness, particularism, emotionalism, vainglory, dogmatism, rationalism, sycophancy, shrewdness, piety, vindictiveness, statecraft, ideology, jobbery, prevarication, irrationality, scruple, perspicuity, politics, repugnancy, duplicity, sake, servility, roguery, desideratum, obduracy, amour propre, bellicosity, unreasonableness, cupidity, impracticality, empiricism, unscrupulousness, uprightness, propriety, semantics, convenience, credibility, necessities, sanity, selfinterest, solvency, utility, desirability, inefficiency, priority, safety, usefulness, dictates, exigency, relevancy
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Also try:marriage of convenience, opportunist, principled, self-seeker
— Adjectives for expediency: political, mere, economic, social, practical, military, temporary, general, public, simple, doubtful, more...
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