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against one's better judgment



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Idioms and Phrases

Despite serious misgivings or objections, as in Against my better judgment, I told her to come whenever she pleased .
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This is to be avoided more than anything, for it introduces the personal element into all reasonings, often forcing a decision against one’s better judgment.

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Yet, on the other hand, he did not permit legacies to be given without any restrictions, but disallowed all that were obtained by the effects of disease or by administration of drugs to the testator, or by imprisonment and violence, or by the solicitations of his wife, as he rightly considered that to be persuaded by one's wife against one's better judgment is the same as to submit to force.

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