Other forms: expediencies
Expediency is doing what suits you now rather than what is right. Political expediency, mere expediency, a matter of expediency.
It is always a criticism, since calling a decision expediency says principle was set aside for convenience. Expedience is the same word and is used slightly more neutrally.
1nounexpediencyDoing what suits you now rather than what is right.
“The decision was driven by political expediency rather than by principle.”
expediency is a convenience.