expedient Copy link • expedient: ūtĭlis, e: to prefer the honourable to the e., honestum praeferre utili, Hor.: it is never (really) e. to sin, nunquam u. est peccare, Cic.: v. useful. Phr.: it is e., expĕdit, 4, impers. (often foll. by acc. and inf.): what is right is evident; what e., is in the dark, quid rectum sit, apparet, quid ex. obscurum est, Cic. Fam. 5, 19, fin.: Ter.: v. advantage, to be of.