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commonsense

[ UK /kˌɒmənsˈɛns/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑmənˈsɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting native good judgment
    arrive home at a reasonable hour
    unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated
    commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius

How To Use commonsense In A Sentence

  • A ha'porth of commonsense's sometimes worth volumes of statutes. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • If you are aiming almost for pure comedy, then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense.
  • One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points. Find Shannon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • First, none of these critics of a commonsense doctrine of agency deny that the subject or representations of the subject exert significant effects, nor do they deny the subject a kind of social effectivity or agency.
  • Commonsense told them that anyone could eat dozens of apples a day without suffering any permanent ill effect.
  • Had the word commonsense not become such a meaningless term I'd almost be tempted to use it. Workers of the world, divide!
  • This is a victory for commonsense and we want to applaud the Minister for standing with the people on this issue.
  • Sadly the innocent fall prey to it, and commonsense is out the window. on March 22, 2008 at 11: 15 pm | Reply XTP An Ex Traffic Biker Writes: « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • I was a feckless young man, without direction, commonsense, or gumption.
  • I am here using the word preposterous in its dictionary sense of "contrary to nature, reason or commonsense," for in the light of modern scientific knowledge, human behavior is, demonstrably, characterized by the interaction of cultural and biological variables, and, as Melvin Konner has recently put it "an analysis of the causes of human nature that tends to ignore either the genes or the environmental factors may be safely discarded. Evolving Margaret Mead
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