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  • n  good judgment
  • n  the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

  • Judge Julius Hoffman, who presided more in anger than in cool judiciousness, is in semiretirement.
  • When he rose for sentencing, the judge admonished Wilcox to "display more judiciousness in your relations with other people," ordered him to pay the victim's $1,500 hospital bill .
  • He offers little in the way of red-meat rhetoric to his audiences, some of whom are surprised, and disappointed, by his persistent judiciousness.
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  • Ehud Barak in Bloomberg
    Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Army Radio that responding to the rocket attacks will require "judiciousness and seriousness" on Israel's part.
  • Michele Alliot-Marie in Israel Today
    Alliot-Marie added that "two seconds later there would have been a shot against the aircraft which were directly menacing our forces. A catastrophe was avoided thanks to the judiciousness of our troops."
  • Edgardo Angara in Inquirer.net
    These bills are subject to change,Angara added. "We realize editorial functions are privately exercised prerogatives. Nonetheless, we appeal to our friends in media for fairness and judiciousness."

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