sensible
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- a showing reason or sound judgment
a sensible choice
a sensible person - a able to feel or perceive
even amoeba are sensible creatures
the more sensible parts of the skin - s readily perceived by the senses
the sensible universe
a sensible odor - s aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed
made sensible of his mistakes
I am sensible that the mention of such a circumstance may appear trifling"- Henry Hallam
sensible that a good deal more is still to be done"- Edmund Burke
- But Keynes was also right that there would be more sensible ways to spend it.
- He wasn't an elegant rationalist like David Ogilvy, whose ads famously advised the rich that a Rolls-Royce was the sensible car to buy.
- Like more sensible people, she doesn't regard the Irish problem as fully solvable for simple reasons of geography.