expedient

It was the result of a chain of good decisions—wise, prudent, long-sighted, or, at the least, expedient choices.

So in Florida, backing Medicaid expansion may become the politically expedient thing for the Republican.

Obama noted Thursday that both sides in the conflict blame the U.S., a popular and expedient political tactic in Egypt.

And because “it is very tempting to a minister to employ such an expedient…the practice will…be abused, in every government.”

The egalitarian rule-follower is merely expedient, but the loyal person will go to the wall for you.

I beseech your Majesty to be pleased to have executed immediately what is most expedient for the royal service in this matter.

But, after all, perhaps it might be easier and more expedient if he were to appear to accept the Seneschal's statement.

Probably his retreat would be cut off by some similar device, so the bolder expedient of an advance offered the better chance.

He trusted that what might be done in this matter be most expedient for the service of the king our sovereign.

Yet all this was beside the main point, which was that the action of Congress, whether expedient or not, was illegal.