Word Meanings - EXPEDIENTLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.

Related words: (words related to EXPEDIENTLY)

• EXPEDITIONARY
  Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• EXPEDIENTIAL
  . Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv.
• FITLY
  In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
• EXPEDIENTLY
  1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently. 2. With expedition; quickly.
• EXPEDITIONIST
  One who goes upon an expedition. .
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• QUICKLY
  Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• EXPEDIENT
  1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• EXPEDITION
  1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance. 2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INEXPEDIENT
  Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• INCONVENIENTLY
  In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.