better judgment

Synonyms

common sense good sense

Examples

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. Edgar Rice Burroughs

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. Christian Lous Lange

Anybody can talk me round. If I were in a Trappist monastery, the first thing that would happen would be that some smooth performer would lure me into some frightful idiocy against my better judgment by means of the deaf-and-dumb language. P. G. Wodehouse

Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker

This is a sturdy little cop thriller, and even when it stretches the bounds of plausibility, you go with it, partly because you believe -- almost against your better judgment -- in what the characters are doing. Stephanie Zacharek

Words in the phrase

better judgment

Close letter words and terms

better health better housewife better husband better known as better late better late than never