good sense

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good sense - sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

common sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit, sense

sagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment - the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

logic - reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"

nous - common sense; "she has great social nous"

road sense - good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road

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Moral obliquity and consequently lack of good sense; for it has long been accepted that lack of good sense is due to no other cause than moral obliquity.

Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

The good sense of the community has seconded the efforts of the Legislature; and now, even in the country, the pentagonal construction has superseded every other.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

I submit to you, my fellow-citizens, these considerations, in full confidence that the good sense which has so often marked your decisions will allow them their due weight and effect; and that you will never suffer difficulties, however formidable in appearance, or however fashionable the error on which they may be founded, to drive you into the gloomy and perilous scene into which the advocates for disunion would conduct you.

Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context

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