EXPEDIENT in THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES

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a practical action — especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances

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convenient, speedy, or practical

Not improbably he was the best workman of his time; or, perhaps, the Colonel thought it expedient, or was impelled by some better feeling, thus openly to cast aside all animosity against the race of his fallen antagonist.
Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (21% in)

expedient = convenient, speedy, or practical

Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth, that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in a far-distant time; that, together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity.
Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (5% in)

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