expeditious vs expedient
Definitions
adjective
- marked by speed and efficiency
Examples
Veterans must be treated fairly and expeditiously as they seek compensation for disability or illness.
Ten days passed from the court's acceptance of the case to its resolution, expeditious remedy much appreciated by the American plaintiff.
They had long been sailing west upon their expeditious and stead ship, the sun had now sat upon her throne, and her red and gold stallions that drew her chariot pranced among the hoary clouds.
Definitions
adjective
- appropriate to a purpose; practical
- serving to promote your interest
noun
- a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Examples
There is, however, an expedient familiar to conjurers as "changing a card," which, with a little modification, is extensively used by the cardsharping fraternity under the name of "second dealing.
It has no influence of ocean depth, positions accurately and rapidly and operates expediently.
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith.
