expedient

That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions.

It is not language framing a political vision; it is a campaign slogan serving an expedient purpose.

He declared them to be, like all other morals, merely an expedient for protecting a certain type of man.

Contrivance and expedient presented themselves,—all inadequate to the emergency.

But aloud he said, lightly: "Perhaps you may find it expedient to do the same thing, Miss West."

While this was going on Lepoletais coolly explained to Don Sancho the probable results of the expedient he had employed.

Not that she had ever tried it, but she did not think that it would be expedient.