second-guess
- v attempt to anticipate or predict
- v evaluate or criticize with hindsight
- When I told my editors what Ridge said--that he was not going to "second-guess" the motivations of Ashcroft and Rumsfeld--my editors responded by asking if Ridge was backpedaling .
- We can second-guess Blackwater all we want, but the ground truth is Iraq is a shoot first and ask questions later war.
- The commission did not second-guess Corrections Commissioner Russell Oswald's decision to talk to the prisoners, but it contended that he should not have negotiated with more than .