better judgment

language: ja

definitions

  1. The capacity to make wise, sensible, or prudent decisions based on experience, reason, and logic.
    ja: より良い判断
  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.
    ja: 良識に反して

examples

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

    彼女はより良い判断に従って、危険な近道は避けた。

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

    良識に反して、私は彼にお金を貸すことにした。