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Another word for judicious

Adjective

  1. Possessing, proceeding from, or exhibiting good judgment and prudence

    2. See also:

    sane

    reason

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Sentence Examples

  • This criticism needs judicious qualification.

  • Caussin was sent into Brittany, and the judicious and learned Jesuit, Jacques Sirmond, who succeeded him, kept clear of politics.

  • Owing, however, to timely and judicious disposition of the military and police forces the city was saved from much bloodshed.

  • Lord Chesterfield well knew the value of such a compliment; and therefore, when the day of publication drew near, he exerted himself to soothe, by a show of zealous and at the same time of delicate and judicious kindness, the pride which he had so cruelly wounded.

  • He appears to have consolidated his power by the aid of the Church and by a series of judicious matrimonial alliances.

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