Adjective

(en-adj)

Of the highest quality; splendid.

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Simple, easy, or quick; convenient.

Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.

* Bible, John xvi. 7

It is expedient for you that I go away.

* Whately

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient , since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.

Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.

* 1861 , John Stuart Mill,

But the Expedient', in the sense in which it is opposed to the Right, generally means that which is ' expedient for the particular interest of the agent himself; as when a minister sacrifices the interests of his country to keep himself in place.

(obsolete) Quick; rapid; expeditious.

* Shakespeare

His marches are expedient to this town.