All 13 Uses of
prudent
in
Bleak House
- With a buoyancy and hopefulness and a gaiety that hardly ever flagged, Richard had a carelessness in his character that quite perplexed me, principally because he mistook it, in such a very odd way, for prudence.†
Chpt 7-9
- "My prudent Mother Hubbard, why not?" he said to me when he wanted, without the least consideration, to bestow five pounds on the brickmaker.†
Chpt 7-9
- All this time he was, in money affairs, what I have described him in a former illustration--generous, profuse, wildly careless, but fully persuaded that he was rather calculating and prudent.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- —and your mother, who was a prudent woman as dry as a chip, just dwindled away like touchwood after you and Judy were born—you are an old pig.†
Chpt 19-21
- You're prudent, prudent, sir!" cries Grandfather Smallweed, rubbing his legs.†
Chpt 19-21
- You're prudent, prudent, sir!" cries Grandfather Smallweed, rubbing his legs.†
Chpt 19-21
- "It's a sure sign of my prudence that I ever found the way here."†
Chpt 19-21
- "I am well known to be prudent," says Mr. George, composedly smoking.†
Chpt 19-21
- That was prudent I think, because it's not a matter of such importance that it requires to be mentioned."†
Chpt 22-24
- "Am I to understand, sir," says Sir Leicester, "and is my Lady to understand"—he brings her in thus specially, first as a point of gallantry, and next as a point of prudence, having great reliance on her sense—"am I to understand, Mr. Rouncewell, and is my Lady to understand, sir, that you consider this young woman too good for Chesney Wold or likely to be injured by remaining here?"†
Chpt 28-30
- As I received the story, they began in an imprudence on her own part one day when she was taken by surprise, which shows how difficult it is for the firmest of us (she was very firm) to be always guarded.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Not with care and prudence and good help," said my guardian.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Being a prudent man and accustomed to take care of your own affairs, you begin to rummage among the papers as you have come into; don't you?"†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful