better judgment

language: de

definitions

  1. The capacity to make wise, sensible, or prudent decisions based on experience, reason, and logic.
    de: Besseres Urteil
  2. The sense of what is right or prudent, typically used in the phrase 'against one's better judgment' to describe acting contrary to wisdom.
    de: Vernunftwidrig

examples

  1. She relied on her better judgment to avoid the dangerous shortcut.

    Sie verließ sich auf ihr besseres Urteil, um die gefährliche Abkürzung zu vermeiden.

  2. Against my better judgment, I decided to lend him the money.

    Entgegen meinem besseren Urteil beschloss ich, ihm das Geld zu leihen.