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Definition
sensible and careful
- the business habits, and the prudent suggestions, of Mrs. Micawber, have...Chapters 34-36 (89% in)
prudent = sensible and careful
- Nor could I help thinking this a prudent course, since she looked at me out of the pickle-jar, with as great an access of sourness as if her black eyes had absorbed its contents.Chapters 10-12 (6% in)
- 'It seems to us,' said she, 'prudent, Mr. Traddles, to bring these feelings to the test of our own observation.Chapters 40-42 (40% in)
- I was heartily tired of being sagacious and prudent by myself, and of seeing my darling under restraint; so I bought a pretty pair of ear-rings for her, and a collar for Jip, and went home one day to make myself agreeable.Chapters 46-48 (84% in)
- 'Or, if confiding anything to friends will be more likely to relieve you, you shall impart it to us, Mr. Micawber,' said Traddles, prudently.Chapters 49-51 (18% in)
There are no more uses of "prudent" in David Copperfield.
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