What's the difference between expedient and inexpedient?

Expedient


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) Quick; expeditious.
  • (n.) That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
  • (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (2) The expediency of this system has been recognised at an international level.
  • (3) The expedience of using the reference and recent years of isolates of parainfluenza type 1 viruses for serodiagnosis was demonstrated.
  • (4) We can never sacrifice fundamental fairness for political gain, and we should never value expediency over justice – especially in matters of life or death.
  • (5) There were definite benefits achieved by avoiding cancellation of elective operations, by using operating room personnel more efficiently and by expediating the surgical schedule.
  • (6) When evaluating the results of functional tests, it is expedient to use a combination of the parameters of spirography, the curve of forced expiration flow-volume and general plethysmography and in the choice of method preference should be given to the registration of the curve of forced expiration flow-volume.
  • (7) The results allowed the expediency of using laser resection techniques and Pirogov's single-row suture to be substantiated from new standpoints (standpoints of higher biological air-tightness of the anastomoses).
  • (8) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
  • (9) The data obtained are indicative of the expediency to use biohemosorption for treatment of children with purulent septic diseases.
  • (10) It seems expedient to carry out further screening of different reagents and combinations thereof capable of significantly increasing HIV virus reproduction in cell cultures which would serve as the antigen for diagnostic systems.
  • (11) The author proposes the extrapleural-extraperitoneal access through the bed of the resected XI rib as an expedient one in most cases.
  • (12) When a pacing lead becomes infected, the most expedient and successful therapy is its removal.
  • (13) These results have evidenced the expedience of using these criteria for correct identification of leukemic cells.
  • (14) Although acute aortic dissection is not commonly seen at community hospitals, expedient management of such patients can have a major impact on their survival.
  • (15) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
  • (16) When referred to a surgeon, a pregnant woman with a suspicious mammary mass deserves an expedient histologic diagnosis; delay may jeopardize the chances of survival.
  • (17) The expediency of introducing P. aeruginosa strains of different serotypes into the collection of cultures used for the production of pyocyaneum has been shown.
  • (18) On the basis of clinical examinations and treatment of 174 patients the authors substantiate the importance of using special and instrumental means of diagnosis as well as the expediency of exploratory laparotomy for establishing the real cause of the disease.
  • (19) The rule of law collapses into expediency unless judges are independent and self-confident, and the evidence of such judges in Putin's Russia are scant indeed.
  • (20) The clinical outcome of the injury is directly related to the expediency with which treatment is begun.

Inexpedient


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its use in treatment of chlamydiosis proved inexpedient while ciprofloxacin was effective in the treatment of the infection.
  • (2) An opinion is sometimes requested on the future health of a child who is up for adoption when parental incest is a realistic possibility and it is impossible or inexpedient to acquire blood from both parents.
  • (3) Substitution adrenomimetic therapy for arresting collaptoid reactions is inexpedient.
  • (4) "Given the deadline imposed by the constitutional court it is inexpedient to await the passage through parliament of an act dealing with the situation," the 89-year-old said in a government notice.
  • (5) During a 20-year period 31 patients were treated at the clinic, 21 of them underwent operation, in 5 patients an operation was considered inexpedient, another 5 patients refused to be operated on.
  • (6) The lesions were apparently caused by an inexpedient pull on the catheter causing ischaemic necrosis of the urethral wall.
  • (7) Analysis of the data obtained indicated that any examination for shigellae during the extraepidemic period was inexpedient.
  • (8) Clinical data (110 observations over 106 cases) and experiments on animals proved the inexpediency of the peritonization of non-pertonized surfaces in children both in "pure" peritoneum and under the condition of a pronounced inflammation.
  • (9) Thus, the absence of prophylactic efficacy and the sensitizing action of antiinfluenza lactoglobulin pointed to the inexpediency of its use for prophylactic and therapeutic purpose.
  • (10) Results of the work carried out indicated the inexpediency of the treatment of this disease with a combination of levomycetin and phthalazol.
  • (11) The use of antitetanus serum (ATS) in the north taiga soil-vegetative zone and farther to the north is inexpedient because of an insignificant contamination of soil with B. tetani and a trivial contact of the population with soil.
  • (12) Lymphosorption is thought to be inexpedient in malignant tumors of the liver with the symptoms of cancer intoxication.
  • (13) It is substantiated as inexpedient to professionally train and to employ in operator positions the persons with predisposition to create accident as well as necessary to allow for individual-psychophysiological peculiarities of operators while investigating the causes of accidents.
  • (14) The combination of phenobarbital and pyrogenal has proved to be inexpedient.
  • (15) The authors found it inexpedient to make planned mass screening of children attending or just entering the preschool institutions.
  • (16) Under such conditions, it is inexpedient to select immune response modulators.
  • (17) On the basis of the present results and various other factors (ambiguity of the sources of the acoustic effects, expense of the procedure), application of acoustic analysis in forensic medicine for recognition of low-level alcohol intoxication is considered inexpedient.
  • (18) No causal relations may be inferred from the correlation between the level of trapezius activity and complaints, though it indicates that individual, inexpedient muscle activity patterns may constitute an important risk factor for development of musculo-skeletal complaints.
  • (19) Visualized cyclodialysis was carried out in 16 consecutive cases of operation-demanding glaucoma, where trabeculectomy was considered inexpedient.
  • (20) The purpose of this investigation was to establish how often the hormonal pattern indicated ovulation in uremic women and, thereby, the possibility of an inexpedient pregnancy.